Léon: The Professional

Léon is an Italian hitman (or "cleaner", as he refers to himself) in New York City's Little Italy working for a mafioso named "Old Tony". One day, Léon meets Mathilda Lando, a lonely 12-year-old girl. Mathilda lives with her dysfunctional family in an apartment down the hall, and has stopped attending class at her school for troubled girls. Mathilda's abusive father attracts the ire of corrupt DEA agents, who have been paying him to stash cocaine in his apartment. After they discover he has been stealing the cocaine, DEA agents storm the building, led by sharply dressed drug addict Norman Stansfield. During the raid, Stansfield murders Mathilda's entire family while she is out shopping for groceries. When Mathilda returns, she realizes what has happened just in time to continue down the hall to Léon's apartment; he hesitantly gives her shelter.

MPAA Rating:	R
Genre:	Crime, Drama, Thriller, Action
Country:	France
Produced By:	Bernard Grenet, Claude Besson, Patrice Ledoux, Luc Besson, John Garland
Directed By:	Luc Besson
Written By:	Luc Besson
Cast:	Hervé Husson, Alex Dezen, Jernard Burks, Elizabeth Regen, Ellen Greene, George Martin, Jeff McBride, Junior John Levis, Robert LaSardo, Hélène Cardona, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Peter Appel, Frank Senger, Randy Pearlstein, William James Stiggers Jr., Natalie Portman, Samy Naceri, Peter Linari, Michael Badalucco, Gary Oldman, David Gregg, Kent Broadhurst, Michael Mundra, Jessie Keosian, Keith A. Glascoe, David W. Butler, Michel Montanary, Geoffrey Bateman, Danny Aiello, Willi One Blood, Joseph Malerba, Randolph Scott, Tommy Hollis, Michael Wehrhahn, Arsène Jiroyan, Carl J. Matusovich, Maïwenn, Adam Busch, Christophe Gautier, Fred Fischer, Luc Bernard, Eric Challier, Matt De Matt, Daniel Schenmetzler, Alyssia Dujmovich, Denis Bellocq, Jean Reno, Don Creech, Stuart Rudin, Betty Miller, Mario Todisco, Sonny Zito, Marc Andréoni, Mohammed Rashid, Lucius Wyatt Cherokee
In Theaters:	Nov 18, 1994
Runtime:	1 hour 50 minutes
Production:	Gaumont, Les Films du Dauphin
Box Office:	$19,501,238
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