{"id":7498,"count":6,"description":"L\u00e9on (also known as The Professional and L\u00e9on: The Professional) is a 1994 French thriller film written and directed by Luc Besson. It stars Jean Reno as a mob hitman, Gary Oldman as a corrupt DEA agent, a young Natalie Portman, in her feature film debut, as a 12-year-old girl who is taken in by the hitman after her family is murdered, and Danny Aiello as the mobster who gives the hitman his assignments.\nLeone \"L\u00e9on\" Montana (Jean Reno) is a hitman (or \"cleaner,\" as he refers to himself) living a solitary life in New York City's Little Italy. His work comes from a mafioso named Tony (Danny Aiello), who operates from the \"Supreme Macaroni Company\" restaurant. L\u00e9on spends his idle time engaging in calisthenics, nurturing a houseplant that early on he describes as his \"best friend,\" and (in one scene) watching old Gene Kelly musicals.\nOn a particular day, he meets Mathilda Lando (Natalie Portman), a twelve-year-old girl with a black eye and smoking a cigarette, living with her...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/leon\/","name":"Leon","slug":"leon","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/7498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=7498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}