Flawless (2007 film)

Flawless is a 2007 British fictional crime film directed by Michael Radford, written by Edward Anderson, and starring Michael Caine and Demi Moore. It premieredFebruary 2007 in Germany. The film had a limited release in the United States onMarch 2008.

The film opens with the camera focusing on women in various positions of power, from different backgrounds, most of them handling some kind of business on PDAs or cellular phone. The camera follows one woman, a writer for a newspaper who is doing a piece on Women Who Led. As she enters a restaurant to interview a woman to be included in this piece, she is talking on her cell phone to an associate who has guaranteed her a front page spot for a story, of which the writer seems to be very proud. The woman she is meeting with is Laura Quinn, the only woman to ever have been a manager at the London Diamond Corporation during the late 50s into 1960. Quinn in a very nonchalant manner places a box on the table, and out of this box pulls a 168 carat, 58 facet diamond. 33.6g The writer is astounded and eyes the piece as Quinn says, I stole it.The movie flashes back to 1960, when Quinn was still employed as a manager at London Diamond Corporation. She is the first person to arrive at work, and is always the last to leave. Despite her having proved herself intellectually superior to her male coworkers, she is passed over for a promotion for the sixth time. She pretends to brush it off, but it is plain to see that it severely bothers her. The janitor, Mr. Hobbs, says small supportive things to her when he cleans her office at night and then proceeds on his way, obviously an admirer of her strength and resolve to accomplish more than the men at London Diamond. When the company is in danger of losing a crucial contract with the Russians, Quinn saves the company with a simple solution, but the Russians will not proceed unless the arrangements are kept secret from everyone except senior management, which excludes Quinn. Quinn is to be terminated, but Mr. Hobbs finds out and warns her. Additionally, he offers her a place in a plot against the company that will guarantee him a hearty pension and will make her departure from the company a little more satisfying stealing enough diamond

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