Cleaner is a 2025 British action thriller film directed by Martin Campbell and written by Simon Uttley, Paul Andrew Williams, and Matthew Orton. The film stars Daisy Ridley, Taz Skylar and Clive Owen.
Cleaner was released in the United States on 21 February 2025, and in the United Kingdom by Sky Cinema on 2 May 2025.
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Joanna "Joey" Locke and her older brother Michael grow up in a troubled London household, which has forced Joey to take up wall-climbing to escape her abusive father. Twenty years later, as an adult and former soldier, Joey looks after Michael, who is autistic and crusading online against corruption at his care homes. One day, Joey is forced to take him to her workplace at One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, where she works as a window cleaner.
While Joey cleans windows on the highrise alongside her colleague Noah, Michael slips away in an attempt to join her. Amidst a shareholder gala held by the Agnian Energy Company in the building, an environmental activist group naming itself Earth Revolution, of which Noah is a member, executes a violent takeover using sleeping gas canisters and taking Agnian's administration, including company owners Geoffrey and Gerald Milton, and guests hostage. Marcus Blake, the group's leader, is intent on exposing Agnian's hypocrisy, as the company is promoting environmental exploitation and pollution, contrary to its publicly declared goal of switching to cleaner, renewable forms of energy, and has even murdered arrested members of the group before they could testify in their trials. When Geoffrey tries to parley with them, Noah kills him despite Blake's orders, and Gerald runs off to hide. After the fugitive is cornered, Noah, who disagrees with Blake's idealism, murders him and his loyalists, usurps leadership of the group and rigs the hostages with explosives fitted with a dead man's switch synchronized to Noah's heartbeat.
