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The Firm

Tom Cruise and Jeanne Tripplehorn
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Overview

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.

Awards:

Main Cast & Crew:
Sydney Pollack - Director
Tom Cruise
Jeanne Tripplehorn
Gene Hackman
Ed Harris
Holly Hunter
Hal Holbrook
David Strathairn
Gary Busey
Terry Kinney
Wilford Brimley

Details

    DVD Format
  • Format: DVD (AC-3, Dolby, Widescreen)
  • Run Time: 154
  • Color Format: Color
  • UPC: 032429281241
  • Genre: DRAMA
  • Rating: R (MPAA)
  • Release Date: September 2017

Movie Reviews

Notes:
Theatrical release: June 30, 1993. Filmed on location in Memphis, Tennessee; Grand Cayman Islands; Washington, DC; and Boston, Massachusetts.

Reviews:
"...Physically elaborate, the cinematic equivalent of the book's relentlessly descriptive prose..." - 06/30/1993 New York Times, p.C15


"...A very smooth adaptation of John Grisham's giant bestseller....[The] supporting cast is stellar indeed..." - 07/12/1993 Variety


"...It's a pleasure to watch these flamboyant performers chew on their lines..." - 07/09/1993 Entertainment Weekly, p.28-9


"...The movie is virtually an anthology of good small character performances....A late, tricky scene between Hackman and Tripplehorn is like a master class in acting..." - 06/30/1993 Chicago Sun-Times, p.41


3 stars out of 5 -- "Cruise is at his winsome best, surrounded by a barrage of fine character performances from Ed Harris, Holly Hunter and David Strathairn..." - 02/01/2012 Total Film

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