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Léon: The Professional
French theatrical release poster
Directit biLuc Besson
Produced biPatrice Ledoux
Written biLuc Besson
Starnin
Muisic biÉric Serra
CinematographyThierry Arbogast
Eeditit biSylvie Landra
Production
company
Distributit bi
  • Gaumont
    Buena Vista International
Release date
  • 14 September 1994 (1994-09-14)
Rinnin time
133 minutes (oreeginal) 110 minutes (U.S. version)
KintraFraunce
LeidInglis
Budget$16 million[1]
Box office$46.1 million[2]

Léon: The Professional (French: Léon; forby kent as The Professional) is a 1994 Inglis-leid French thriller film[3] written an directit bi Luc Besson. It stars Jean Reno an Gary Oldman, an featurs the motion pictur debut o Natalie Portman. In the film Leon (Reno), a professional hitman, reluctantly taks in 12-year-auld Mathilda (Portman), efter her family is murthert bi corrupt Drug Enforcement Administration agent Norman Stansfield (Oldman). Léon an Mathilda form an unco relationship, as she becomes his protégée an learns the hitman's trade.

Léon: The Professional wis a commercial success, grossin ower $45 million warldwide on a $16 million budget.[1]

References

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  1. a b "Box Office Information for Léon". The Numbers. Retrieved 4 Apryle 2010.
  2. JP. "Léon (The Professional) (1994)". JPBox-Office. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
  3. Ebert, Roger. "The Professional Movie Review (1994)". rogerebert.com. Retrieved 12 October 2016.