The Accountant (2016 film)
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| Directed by | Gavin O'Connor |
| Written by | Bill Dubuque |
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| Cinematography | Seamus McGarvey |
| Edited by | Richard Pearson |
| Music by | Mark Isham |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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Running time | 128 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $44 million |
| Box office | $155.2 million |
The Accountant is a 2016 American action thriller film written by Bill Dubuque, directed by Gavin O'Connor, and starring Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick, J. K. Simmons, Jon Bernthal, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Jeffrey Tambor, and John Lithgow. The storyline follows Christian Wolff, an autistic certified public accountant who makes his living sanitizing fraudulent financial and accounting records of criminal and terrorist organizations around the world that are experiencing internal embezzlement.
The Accountant premiered in Los Angeles on October 10, 2016, and was theatrically released in the United States by Warner Bros. Pictures on October 14, 2016. Receiving mixed reviews from critics, the film grossed $155 million worldwide. It received praise for Affleck's performance and the action sequences featuring pencak silat, an Indonesian martial art, but it was also criticized for some elements of its portrayal of autism.
A sequel, The Accountant 2, was released in 2025 by Amazon MGM Studios, with Affleck, Bernthal, Addai-Robinson and Simmons reprising their roles, while a third film is currently in development.