Code Name: The Cleaner
2007 film directed by Les Mayfield
Code Name: The Cleaner is a 2007 American action comedy film directed by Les Mayfield and starring Cedric the Entertainer, Lucy Liu, Callum Keith Rennie, Nicollette Sheridan and Mark Dacascos. The film was released by New Line Cinema on January 5, 2007. Upon its release, the film was panned by critics and was a box-office bomb.
Plot
Jake wakes up in a hotel room next to a dead body along with a suitcase full of money. He has a bruise on his head and can't remember anything. He leaves the hotel with the suitcase and sees a lady (Diane) downstairs who drives him out of the hotel. FBI agents arrive there and try to reconstruct the events.
Diane claims to be his wife and takes him to a large mansion insisting it's his home. But he grows suspicious since he's not on any of the photographs there. Diane seduces him asking about a computer chip at the hotel.
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