The Counselor (2013) on Netflix
A Texas lawyer known only as the Counselor buys a ring for his girlfriend Laura, then invests in a drug deal with Reiner. Westray warns him about the cartel behind it.
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Plot summary
An unnamed lawyer in Texas, called the Counselor, travels to Amsterdam to buy an engagement ring for his girlfriend Laura, and she accepts his proposal. At a party given by the drug dealer Reiner, the Counselor agrees to put money into a drug shipment, his first. Westray, Reiner's business associate, takes the investment and warns him that the Mexican cartels behind the deal show no mercy, though the Counselor stays confident. Ruth, a client facing a murder trial, asks him to bail out her son, a biker arrested for speeding, and he agrees as a favor. The cocaine itself is packed into barrels and driven over the border from Mexico in a sewage truck.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Counselor (2013)
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- The Counselor came from the first spec script the novelist Cormac McCarthy ever sold, bought by Nick Wechsler and Steve and Paula Mae Schwartz, who had already produced the adaptation of his novel The Road.
- Ridley Scott stopped the shoot on 20 August 2012 after the death of his brother, the director Tony Scott, canceling that week's work to fly to Los Angeles and be with the family, and resuming in London on 3 September.
- Javier Bardem's startling upswept hairstyle was the actor's own idea, modeled on the hairdo of the film producer Brian Grazer.
- Ridley Scott has called McCarthy's script the best dialogue he ever had, and said that once he agreed to shoot it immediately he cast Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz and Cameron Diaz within two weeks because they were all fighting for the parts.
