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The film was a commercial success, grossing over $45 million worldwide on a $16 million budget.

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LГ©on: The Professional was released in France on 14 September 1994. It was commercially successful in Japan, being certified gold for 100,000 copies shipped in December 1999. Soundtrack ДЄ soundtrack for the film was released in October 1994 by TriStar Music. The final scene at school was filmed at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. While most of the interior footage was shot in France, the rest of the film was shot on location in New York City. Besson described LГ©on as 'Now maybe Jean is playing the American cousin of Victor. In La Femme Nikita, Jean Reno plays a similar character named Victor. LГ©on: The Professional is to some extent an expansion of an idea in Besson's earlier 1990 film, La Femme Nikita (in some countries Nikita). LГ©on and Mathilda's apartment building on the northwest corner of E 97th St & Park Ave, pictured in 2003 Mathilda walks onto a field near the school to plant LГ©on's houseplant, as she had told LГ©on that he should 'give it roots'. He gives Mathilda $100 from LГ©on's funds as an allowance, and sends her back to school, where the headmistress re-admits her after Mathilda reveals what had happened to her. Mathilda tries to convince Tony to hire her, but Tony flatly refuses to hire a twelve-year-old, and tells Mathilda he had been instructed by LГ©on to give his money to her if anything happened to him. Mathilda goes to Tony, as LГ©on had told her to do earlier. Stansfield opens LГ©on's vest to find a cluster of active grenades, which promptly detonate, killing Stansfield. As LГ©on dies, he presses a grenade pin in Stansfield's palm that, saying it is from Mathilda. He goes unnoticed by everyone except Stansfield, who follows him and shoots him in the back. Using the ensuing chaos as cover, a grievously wounded LГ©on sneaks out of the building disguised as an ESU officer. LГ©on creates a quick escape for Mathilda by smashing a hole in an air shaft he tells her to meet him at Tony's place in an hour, and tells her that he loves her, moments before the police blow up the apartment. LГ©on ambushes the ESU team and rescues Mathilda. Later, while Mathilda returns home from grocery shopping, an NYPD ESU team sent by Stansfield captures her and attempts to infiltrate LГ©on's apartment. LГ©on killed the father in revenge and fled to New York, where he met Tony and trained to become a cleaner. The two made plans to elope, but when the girl's father discovered their relationship, he killed her out of anger. That night, LГ©on tells Mathilda about how he became a cleaner when LГ©on was 18 in Italy, he was in love with a girl from a wealthy family. An enraged Stansfield confronts Tony, who is violently interrogated for LГ©on's whereabouts. LГ©on, after discovering her plan in a note left for him, rescues Mathilda, killing two more of Stansfield's men in the process. She bluffs her way into the DEA office by posing as a delivery girl, only to be ambushed by Stansfield in a bathroom one of his men arrives and announces that LГ©on had just killed Malky, one of the corrupt DEA agents, in Chinatown that morning. When LГ©on heads out for an apparent assignment, Mathilda fills a bag with guns from LГ©on's collection and sets out to kill Stansfield. Mathilda looks up to LГ©on and quickly develops a crush on him, often telling him she loves him, but he refuses to reciprocate.

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In exchange, she runs his errands, cleans his apartment, and teaches him how to read. At first, LГ©on is unsettled by her presence, and considers murdering her, but he eventually trains Mathilda and shows her how to use various weapons. She begs him to take care of her and to teach her his skills, as she wants to avenge the murder of her four-year-old brother. Mathilda quickly discovers that LГ©on is a hitman. When Mathilda returns, she realizes what has happened just in time to continue down the hall to LГ©on's apartment he hesitantly gives her shelter. During the raid, Stansfield murders Mathilda's entire family while she is out shopping for groceries. After they discover he has been stealing the cocaine, DEAВ agents storm the building, led by sharply dressed drug addict Norman Stansfield. Mathilda's abusive father attracts the ire of corrupt DEA agents, who have been paying him to stash cocaine in his apartment. Mathilda lives with her dysfunctional family in an apartment down the hall, and has stopped attending class at her school for troubled girls. One day, LГ©on meets Mathilda Lando, a lonely 12-year-old girl. LГ©on is an Italian hitman (or 'cleaner', as he refers to himself) in New York City's Little Italy working for a mafioso named 'Old Tony'.