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Leon
Action

An action movie from a professional mafia killer,
and his young daughter-like companion.

Quite famous action movie, Leon, tells a story about professional mafia killer Leon, and young orphan girl Mathilda.

Mathilda's father is a drug dealer, who works for corrupted DEA detectives. Father steals stuff from his bosses, and the leader of the detectives, Stansfield, decides to kill the father and his family.

When the execution takes place, Mathilda is shopping, and she is the only survivor of the family. Mathilda turns to the neighbor, who just happens to be a professional Mafia killer, and asks him to take care of her. 

Mathilda wants to revenge the killing of her young brother to the cops, and she wants to become a killer too. So. She asks Leon to teach her how to kill, and Leon agrees to help her While living and spending time together, the unconventional couple forms quite conventional father-daughter relationship.

The movie itself is a very traditional action movie. Action, humor, blood, corpses and all other required elements are included.

Good choice for the friends of the action genre. Not going to be disappointed.


Leon ( Jean Reno ) and Mathilda ( Natalie Portman )

Leon was filmed  during the summer 1993.

Leon
NameLeon
GenreAction
RatingR
Year / Country1993 / France
Cast ( Leading )
MathildaNatalie Portman
LeonJean Reno
StansfieldGary Oldman
Production
DirectedLuc Besson
WritersLuc Besson

NP - Trivia : Awards

Heat is the first movie from which Natalie got a nomination for an award. In the movie she played detective's daughter in few scenes. 

Heat is also the 1st Hollywood movie she has done, and the 2nd full length movie she played.

Her big screen debut, Leon, is a French made movie. France is a country, where most of the European movies are done. Italy is another.

Movie Heat
Win / Nom Nomination
Year 1995
Award  Young Star Award
Category  Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Drama Film