The Firm (1993)
Average Rating: 6.2/10
Reviews Counted: 52
Fresh: 39 | Rotten: 13
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Average Rating: 5.2/10
Critic Reviews: 10
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 5
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Movie Info
In this drama, based on the best-selling novel by John Grisham, Mitch McDeer (Tom Cruise) is a young man from a poor Southern family who has struggled through Harvard Law School to graduate fifth in his class. Mitch is entertaining offers from major firms in New York and Chicago, but when Memphis-based Bendini, Lambert, & Locke offer him a 20 percent higher salary than the best offer he's received, in addition to an enticing variety of perks and fringe benefits, he decides to sign on and remain
Jun 1, 1993 Wide
May 23, 2000
Paramount Pictures
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Cast
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Tom Cruise
Mitch McDeere -
Jeanne Tripplehorn
Abby McDeere -
Gene Hackman
Avery Tolar -
Hal Holbrook
Oliver Lambert -
Terry Kinney
Lamar Quinn -
Ed Harris
Wayne Tarrance -
Holly Hunter
Tammy Hemphill -
Wilford Brimley
William Devasher -
David Strathairn
Ray McDeere -
Gary Busey
Eddie Lomax -
Steven Hill
F. Denton Voyles -
Tobin Bell
The Nordic Man -
Barbara Garrick
Kay Quinn -
Jerry Hardin
Royce McKnight -
Paul Calderon
Thomas Richie -
Jerry Weintraub
Sonny Capps -
Karina Lombard
Young Woman on Beach -
Joey Anderson
Ruth -
Rebecca Glenn
Young Woman at Patio... -
Greg Goossen
Vietnam Veteran -
David A. Kimball
Randall Dunbar -
Margo Martindale
Nina Huff -
Dean Norris
Squat Man -
Afemo Omilami
Cotton Truck Driver -
Clint Smith
Cotton Truck Driver -
Paul Sorvino
Joey Morolto "uncred... -
Debbie Turner
Rental Agent -
Lou Walker
Frank Mulholland -
James White
Singer at Hyatt -
Bart Whiteman
Dutch -
John Beal
Nathan Locke -
David Dwyer
Prison Guard -
Donald Jones
Attorney -
Mark W. Johnson
FBI Agent -
Tommy Cresswell
Wally Hudson -
Jonathan E. Kaplan
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All Critics (53) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (39) | Rotten (13) | DVD (16)
Tom Cruise heads a tony cast in a best-seller movie that is firm at the start and infirm by the end.
Top CriticThe 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.
A smooth adaptation of John Grisham's giant bestseller that is destined to be one of the summer's strong audience pleasers.
Adorning the film, in supporting roles, are its saving graces.
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.
The book moved at turbo speed. At two and a half hours, the movie crawls.
...pits Cruise against the world, with only his character's wit.
Too-long Grisham thriller is full of adult themes.
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.
The first in a long series of unsatisfying Grisham adaptations.
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.
Even Tom Cruise is a winner in a Pollack-Grisham collaboration.
Cruise at the top of his game
Is this a thriller? You've never scene a 'suspense film' drag its heels so deplorably, enlivened only by some colorful character acting.
A first-class thriller and thought-provoking morality play.
The fact that this was a hit proves, once again, that the average IQ is only 100.
It is non-threatening fun, and it is a much better crafted film than what passes for Academy Award Best Picture nomination material these days.
Moderately entertaining... and a big step up from the book.
A riveting drama, continuing to build the star of Cruise.
Slick, highly enjoyable filming of a disposal best seller
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