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The Firm, 1993

Starring: Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn

Directed by: Sydney Pollack

Written by: John Grisham

Language: English

Country: USA

Runtime: 154 min

MPAA Rating: R

Rating:6.7

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The mood of The Firm is cynical, clever, and suspenseful. The plot centers around corporate crimes, a legal investigation, and a moral dilemma. It is a thriller, drama, and crime movie. Stylistically, The Firm has a Hollywood tone. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The pacing is fast. The Firm is set in Memphis. It happens in the 1990s. It is based on a book. The Firm is known for being a blockbuster, an award winner, and critically acclaimed. Note that it includes profanity and violent content.

Summary of The Firm

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.

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Language:	English
Country:	USA
Release date:	30 June 1993
Runtime:	154 min

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Tom Cruise

as Mitch McDeere

Jeanne Tripplehorn

as Abby McDeere

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The New York Times

The movie is extremely long (two hours and 34 minutes) and so slow that by the end you feel as if you've been standing up even if you've been sitting down. Full Review

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by: Vincent Canby

The New Yorker

The supporting cast provides centripetal force; too bad the center cannot hold. Full Review

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by: Michael Sragow

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Excellent

a long-long time ago, when Tom Cruise still knew how to act, he had some great films and this is one of them. baesd on another excellent novel by John Grisham, good tense, a very good acting, not a dull moment and gets the job done. what more could... Read and rate it

01.November.2008
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by: Noa
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