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The Firm
1993
Sydney Pollack directs Tom Cruise in this legal thriller based on John Grisham's best-seller. Cruise plays Mitch McDeere, an ambitious young lawyer who accepts an unmatchable offer from a Memphis law firm only to discover that the deal was too good to be true. As he becomes tangled in a web of deceit, Mob connections, and FBI .. Read more
| Starring | Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Ed Harris, Holly Hunter |
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| Director | Sydney Pollack |
| Genres | Drama, Thriller |
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The Firm
Sydney Pollack directs Tom Cruise in this legal thriller based on John Grisham's best-seller. Cruise plays Mitch McDeere, an ambitious young lawyer who accepts an unmatchable offer from a Memphis law firm only to discover that the deal was too good to be true. As he becomes tangled in a web of deceit, Mob connections, and FBI investigations, he struggles to escape with his integrity--and his life.
| Starring | Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Ed Harris, Holly Hunter, Hal Holbrook, David Strathairn, Wilford Brimley, Gary Busey, Paul Sorvino, Gene Hackman, Terry Kinney, David Stra |
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| Director | Sydney Pollack |
| Studio | PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 28 mins Blu-ray: 2 hrs 28 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 Top Thrillers |
| Genres | Drama, Thriller |
| Language | English |
| Dubbed | Czech, German |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | Arabic, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | DVD: 04 Dec 2000 Blu-ray: 29 Mar 2010 Production year: 1993 |
| Format | DVD |
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After running rings around the US Navy in A Few Good Men, Tom Cruise returns to the courtroom for this big-screen adaptation of John Grisham's bestseller. The result is a lavish, star-studded legal thriller, which at times seems as if it is going to last as long as the OJ Simpson trial, but is never less than engrossing. Cruise is a rising young lawyer who gets a dream job with a prestigious law firm only to discover that it offers more than just legal advice to one particularly sinister client. The ever excellent Gene Hackman is his jaded superior, but, as good as they are, the two stars are outshone by the seemingly never-ending parade of star supporting turns (Holly Hunter, Ed Harris, David Strathairn, Hal Holbrook and an unbilled Goodfellas reprise from Paul Sorvino). Director Sydney Pollack is as proficient as usual and just about manages to sustain the suspense throughout, even though the subject matter is fairly dry.
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An attention-holding thriller for the most part, though its conclusion, diverging from the tougher stance of the novel, is unsatisfactory.
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8 out of 10 people found this review helpful
Grisham Fan!!!
Excellent film. Still good after seeing it for a while.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
good film, nearly as good as teh book but was abit short off the brilliance the book had, good to watch, lots of suspence twists and turns in teh plot, if you've not read teh book, you'll love this film but if you've read teh book first like i have it don't do the book justice, but not many films do,
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Firm, The - BLU-RAY Version
Sydney Pollack directs Tom Cruise in this legal thriller based on John Grisham's best-seller. Cruise plays Mitch McDeere, an ambitious young lawyer who accepts an unmatchable offer from a Memphis law firm only to discover that the deal was too good to be true. As he becomes tangled in a web of ...
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