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The Accountant

  • 2016
  • R
  • 2h 8m
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
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Ben Affleck in The Accountant (2016)
Christian Wolff 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, starting to close in, Christian takes on a legitimate client: a state-of- the-art robotics company where an accounting clerk 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.
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As a math savant uncooks the books for a new client, the Treasury Department closes in on his activities, and the body count starts to rise.As a math savant uncooks the books for a new client, the Treasury Department closes in on his activities, and the body count starts to rise.As a math savant uncooks the books for a new client, the Treasury Department closes in on his activities, and the body count starts to rise.

  • Director
    • Gavin O'Connor
  • Writer
    • Bill Dubuque
  • Stars
    • Ben Affleck
    • Anna Kendrick
    • J.K. Simmons
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.3/10
    306K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    503
    133
    • Director
      • Gavin O'Connor
    • Writer
      • Bill Dubuque
    • Stars
      • Ben Affleck
      • Anna Kendrick
      • J.K. Simmons
    • 671User reviews
    • 343Critic reviews
    • 51Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 3 wins & 5 nominations

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    Ben Affleck
    Ben Affleck
    • Christian Wolff
    Anna Kendrick
    Anna Kendrick
    • Dana Cummings
    J.K. Simmons
    J.K. Simmons
    • Ray King
    Jon Bernthal
    Jon Bernthal
    • Brax
    Jeffrey Tambor
    Jeffrey Tambor
    • Francis Silverberg
    Cynthia Addai-Robinson
    Cynthia Addai-Robinson
    • Marybeth Medina
    John Lithgow
    John Lithgow
    • Lamar Blackburn
    Jean Smart
    Jean Smart
    • Rita Blackburn
    Andy Umberger
    Andy Umberger
    • Ed Chilton
    Alison Wright
    Alison Wright
    • Justine
    Jason Davis
    Jason Davis
    • Neurologist
    Robert C. Treveiler
    Robert C. Treveiler
    • Young Chris' Father
    • (as Rob Treveiler)
    Mary Kraft
    Mary Kraft
    • Young Chris' Mother
    Seth Lee
    Seth Lee
    • Young Chris
    Jake Presley
    Jake Presley
    • Young Brax
    Izzy Fenech
    • Young Justine
    Ron Prather
    Ron Prather
    • Frank Rice
    Susan Savoie
    Susan Savoie
    • Dolores Rice
    • (as Susan Williams)
    • Director
      • Gavin O'Connor
    • Writer
      • Bill Dubuque
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    • Trivia
      While for dramatic effect, the script calls out the repeated use of the number "three" as an indicator of fraudulent numbers, the theory behind fraudulent number detection is known as "Benford's Law". The law states that in numbers, such as account transactions, the probability of a number occurring naturally drops, as one moves from smaller numbers to the larger numbers following a logarithmic scale. This law has been successfully used to detect fraudulent accounting transactions.
    • Goofs
      The two people that Christian kills with his Barrett M82A1 .50 caliber rifle via head shots are only shown falling down with some blood splatter. In reality, bullets of that size would have completely blown their heads apart, as demonstrated earlier on in the movie when Christian is using cantaloupes as target practice for his Barrett on the Rices' farm.
    • Quotes

      Christian Wolff: I like Dogs Playing Poker... because dogs would never bet on things; so it's incongruous. I like incongruity.

    • Connections
      Featured in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Ben Affleck/Sarah Paulson/Green Day (2016)
    • Soundtracks
      Hotell 2
      Written and performed by Andreas Söderström and Johan Berthling

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    It's entertaining and smart.
    A thriller should be entertaining and smart, both of which The Accountant is. Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck) is not Christian in the traditional sense, but he is a wolf of a hunter, about as accurate as anyone behind a telescopic gun barrel could be.

    Yet he's a brilliant accountant at the same time, thank you, autism: He has a savant's grasp of facts and numbers (think Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man) but a serious deficiency in the affective and communicative categories. Affleck plays him with a grasp of disaffection that is almost humorous, in fact is with some of his straight-arrow responses: "I don't guess," he says when queried if he had a hunch about the perpetrator of a fraud.

    You see, he is hired by all kinds of wealthy and criminal business people and governments to uncook their books or whatever is necessary to discover fraud or put the books in order. These jobs lead to situations where he is wanted by bad guys or the IRS or whomever. Wolff's legitimate, current job for a robotics company is complicated enough for him to need several glass walls to write on (think Affleck's buddy Mark Damon in Good Will Hunting), taking in hours what would consume days for a host of professional accountants.

    And so it goes according to the thriller formula that the bad guys will be on his trail, and he will be made vulnerable by a cute co-worker, Dana (Anna Kendrick), who has some of his math savvy and maybe a bit of sweet for him. The Accountant veers from formula because that romance is of the "chaste-and-from-afar" kind, almost but not quite at the kiss stage. It's pleasant not to be bothered by heavy sex when the complications are of the cerebral, themselves the core of pleasure in this brainy, but not too, action drama.

    Unfortunately our autistic hero, trained by a merciless military father to defend himself because dad knew son would always be treated as different, slips into thriller stereotype, e.g. Christian puts down too many hired guns at one time, albeit in the service of a noble retaliation for a prison friend. Although the action is within the parameters of the genre, it here feels overdone given the cerebral contexts that otherwise provide plenty of thrills.

    One of the joys of this film is to see Affleck show some acting chops; he may never be like Dustin Hoffman, but he's memorably stoic here, a long way from J.Lo and Gigli.
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    • Oct 13, 2016

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    • Why does Christian strike his shin with the club?

    Details

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    • Release date
      • October 14, 2016 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Facebook
    • Languages
      • English
      • Indonesian
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Mật Danh: Kế Toán
    • Filming locations
      • Atlanta, Georgia, USA(stand in for Plainfield, Naperville, & Chicago, Illinois)
    • Production companies
      • Warner Bros.
      • RatPac-Dune Entertainment
      • Electric City Entertainment
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $44,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $86,260,045
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $24,710,273
      • Oct 16, 2016
    • Gross worldwide
      • $155,160,045
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      2 hours 8 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
      • Dolby Surround 7.1
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.39 : 1

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