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The Firm (1993)
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Average Rating:6.2/10
Synopsis: Sydney Pollack directs Tom Cruise in this fast-paced legal thriller based on John Grisham's best-selling novel. Lured by extraordinary financial perks, Mitch McDeere, a young and hungry Harvard Law... Sydney Pollack directs Tom Cruise in this fast-paced legal thriller based on John Grisham's best-selling novel. Lured by extraordinary financial perks, Mitch McDeere, a young and hungry Harvard Law student, turns down offers at the top law firms to take a position at a small but wealthy Memphis firm. Mitch, a boy from the wrong side of the tracks fueled by ambition and greed, ignores his wife Abby's initial misgivings about the suspiciously paternalistic practices of his new employers. It's only when two of his fellow lawyers die in a mysterious accident that Mitch begins to share her apprehensions. He then launches an investigation into the true nature of the firm and discovers that it is a front for a complex and sinister web of organized crime, one from which no lawyer has managed to escape alive. Solid storytelling and fine performances bring this seemingly improbable situation straight into reality. [More]
Starring: Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Ed Harris, Holly Hunter
Starring: Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Ed Harris, Holly Hunter, David Strathairn, Gary Busey, Hal Holbrook, Gene Hackman, Wilford Brimley, Paul Sorvino
Director: Sydney Pollack
Director: Sydney Pollack
Story: John Grisham
Reviews for The Firm
Tom Cruise heads a tony cast in a best-seller movie that is firm at the start and infirm by the end.
The Firm amusingly satirizes the New Traditionalist aspirations of today's young urban elite -- not so much the lifestyle itself as the illusion of utter security it represents.
This is a professional machine of a movie that compresses huge amounts of information into its two and a half hours of screen time. But it's so weighed down by detail, it fails to generate any real suspense.
A smooth adaptation of John Grisham's giant bestseller that is destined to be one of the summer's strong audience pleasers.
This legal thriller is smartly directed and well scripted (by some of Hollywood's top writers), but, alas, Tom Cruise is Tom Cruise, playing yet another variation of his screen image.
What starts out as interesting becomes increasingly hokey and silly -- Wilford Brimley is ludicrously cast as the firm's senior hit man -- where it should be intense and suspenseful.
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July 21, 2005:
Trailer Bulletin: Two for the Money
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