The Accountant

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The Accountant is – surprisingly – a thriller film directed by Gavin O’Connor (Jane Got a Gun, Warrior). Ben Affleck stars as the deadly CPA alongside Anna Kendrick, J. K. Simmons, Jon Bernthal, Jeffrey Tambor, and John Lithgow.

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 (Simmons), starting to close in, Christian takes on a legitimate client: a state-of-the-art robotics company where an accounting clerk (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 story speaks to the duality in all of us,” says Affleck. “It might be easy to pigeonhole a guy like Chris, but we find out he’s capable of much more than you imagine. On the one hand, he’s this effectively trained fighter and on the other, he’s a math savant. Those facets of his personality—seemingly at odds in him—were unlike anything I’ve ever done before and made it both exciting and challenging.”

The Accountant is rated 14A.