Earning Whom You Know's Highest Recommendation, The Accountant by Warner Bros. Pictures Debuts in the USA October 14, 2016 The Most Oscar-Worthy Movie of the Year So Far Says Peachy Deegan Our Coverage Sponsored by Stribling and Associates
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We were hugely impressed with the performance of Anna Kendrick and feel she deserves to be cast more often in blockbusters such as this in lead roles. She has a lot more versatility than she often receives credit for. Playing an accounting clerk at a state-of-the-art robotics company, Dana Cummings, Kendrick embodies cunning and quirky to a perfect balance. She's supersmart and delivers an Oscar-worthy performance.
For all that read us for fashion, you'll appreciate her lines about coveting a Vera Wang dress.
We applaud all that devote themselves to films of intelligence such as these. It is high time that both the American and international public appreciated the cerebral qualities of the businessperson thought to have a mundane existence although they possess qualities and are capable of feats that supersede their appearance.
The combined superior talent of this cast and their chemistry together is absolutely superlative and the casting department could not have done better work as well as the actors and their character execution. This is Affleck's best performance since Good Will Hunting.
"Part of my job as director," O'Connor says, "is surrounding myself with people who are really good at what they do-people who are going to constantly lift up the material and make me better and make the movie the best it can be. All of these actors are of that caliber."
The well-developed plot will absolutely suck you in and you'll forget you once had a phone that you checked every 20 seconds. The black and white of good and evil is fabulously murky shades of silver and gray throughout The Accountant, and you'll discover each layer of suspense with baited breath.
A prevailing theme in The Accountant is the contrast between appearances and the depth of truth behind the character in question; it is going to have you second guessing an awful lot.
"The story speaks to the duality in all of us. It might be easy to pigeonhole a guy like Chris, but we find out he's capable of much more than you imagine," Affleck notes. Jean Smart and John Lithgow, sister and brother team: Rita and Lamar Blackburn (Ritas have a great track record here between Mover & Shaker Rita Cosby and an upcoming Rita) of the robotics brand bring an entrepreneurial flavor to the film that evokes degrees of evil progression. We really loved Jean Smart in Designing Women.
With Kendrick from Maine and Affleck from Massachusetts, it's clear that the best of Hollywood sometimes comes from NEW ENGLAND.
After all of the Affleck stellar sniper action, we swear we could have heard Matt Damon whisper in the audience: "How about them apples?!!"
The Accountant has earned Whom You Know's Highest Recommendation.
Oscar winner Ben Affleck (“Argo,” upcoming “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice”) stars in the title role of “The Accountant,” from director Gavin O’Connor (“Miracle,” “Pride and Glory,” “Warrior”).
Christian Wolff (Affleck) is a math savant with more affinity for numbers than people. Behind the cover of a small-town CPA office, he works as a freelance accountant for some of the world’s most dangerous criminal organizations. With the Treasury Department’s Crime Enforcement Division, run by Ray King (J.K. Simmons), starting to close in, Christian takes on a legitimate client: a state-of-the-art robotics company where an accounting clerk (Anna Kendrick) has discovered a discrepancy involving millions of dollars. But as Christian uncooks the books and gets closer to the truth, it is the body count that starts to rise.
“The Accountant” also stars Oscar nominee Anna Kendrick (“Up in the Air,” “Into the Woods”), Oscar winner J.K. Simmons (“Whiplash,” the “Spider-Man” films), Jon Bernthal (“Fury,” “The Wolf of Wall Street”), Jean Smart (TV’s “Fargo,” “24”), and Cynthia Addai-Robinson (“Star Trek: Into Darkness”), with Jeffrey Tambor (TV’s “Transparent,” “The Hangover” films) and two-time Oscar nominee John Lithgow (“Interstellar,” “Terms of Endearment,” “The World According to Garp”).
O’Connor directed the film from a screenplay by Bill Dubuque (“The Judge”). The film was produced by Mark Williams and Lynette Howell, with O’Connor, Jamie Patricof and Marty Ewing serving as executive producers.
The behind-the-scenes creative team includes two-time Oscar-nominated director of photography Seamus McGarvey (“Anna Karenina,” “Atonement,” upcoming “Pan”), production designer Keith Cunningham, Oscar-nominated editor Richard Pearson (“United 93”), costume designer Nancy Steiner, and Oscar-nominated composer Mark Isham (“Warrior,” “A River Runs Through It”).
Warner Bros. Pictures presents an Electric City Entertainment/Zero Gravity Management Production, a Gavin O’Connor Film, “The Accountant.” The film is slated for release worldwide beginning October 7, 2016.
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