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| 1994 – 115′ – Thriller, Action, Crime, Drama. <\/p>\n Mathilda (Natalie Portman) is only 12 years old, but is already familiar with the dark side of life: her abusive father stores drugs for corrupt police officers, and her mother neglects her. L\u00e9on (Jean Reno), who lives down the hall, tends to his houseplants and works as a hired hitman for mobster Tony (Danny Aiello). When her family is murdered by crooked DEA agent Stansfield (Gary Oldman), Mathilda joins forces with a reluctant L\u00e9on to learn his deadly trade and avenge her family’s deaths.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE PROFESSIONAL | 1994 – 115′ – Thriller, Action, Crime, Drama. Written by: Luc Besson. Directed by:\u00a0Luc Besson. Starring:\u00a0Jean Reno,\u00a0Gary Oldman,\u00a0Natalie Portman,\u00a0Danny Aiello, Peter Appel, Willi One Blood, Don Creech,\u00a0Keith A. Glascoe. In English. A Sony Pictures\u00a0release. | Mathilda (Natalie Portman) is only 12 years old, but is already familiar with the dark side […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,33,11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-action","category-crime","category-drama","category-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16100"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18237,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16100\/revisions\/18237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWritten by: Luc Besson.
\nDirected by:\u00a0Luc Besson.
\nStarring:\u00a0Jean Reno,\u00a0Gary Oldman,\u00a0Natalie Portman,\u00a0Danny Aiello, Peter Appel, Willi One Blood, Don Creech,\u00a0Keith A. Glascoe.
\nIn English.
\nA Sony Pictures\u00a0release. |<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nWATCH NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n