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The Firm (1993)

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Reviews Counted:50

Fresh:38

Rotten:12

Average Rating:6.2/10

Runtime: 2 hrs 34 mins

Genre: Dramas

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

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Full Review Source: ViewLondon | comment Comment
09/18/09
Matthew Turner
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon

The first in a long series of unsatisfying Grisham adaptations.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
05/26/08
Channel 4 Film
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Adorning the film, in supporting roles, are its saving graces.

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01/26/06
Wally Hammond
Wally Hammond
Time Out
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No review available.

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11/15/03
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

An average movie improved by Cruise's star appeal and accomplished supporting cast.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
01/01/00
Matt Mueller
Matt Mueller
Empire Magazine
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Tom Cruise heads a tony cast in a best-seller movie that is firm at the start and infirm by the end.

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05/26/08
Richard Corliss
Richard Corliss
TIME Magazine
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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.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment Comment
05/26/08
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly

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.

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05/26/08
TV Guide's Movie Guide
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A smooth adaptation of John Grisham's giant bestseller that is destined to be one of the summer's strong audience pleasers.

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05/26/08
Todd McCarthy
Todd McCarthy
Variety
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03/20/08
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

No review available.

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04/06/07
Susan Granger
Susan Granger
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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.

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07/15/06
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

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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03/04/06
Chuck O'Leary
Chuck O'Leary
FulvueDrive-in.com

Even Tom Cruise is a winner in a Pollack-Grisham collaboration.

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11/07/05
Jules Brenner
Jules Brenner
Cinema Signals

No review available.

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06/18/05
James Plath
James Plath
DVDTown.com

Cruise at the top of his game

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03/23/05
Clint Morris
Clint Morris
Moviehole

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01/30/05
Greg Maki
Greg Maki
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12/28/04
Michael Dequina
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com

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10/24/04
Derek Smith
Derek Smith
Cinematic Reflections

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10/02/04
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Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
 
 
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July 21, 2005: Trailer Bulletin: Two for the Money
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