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
The Firm (1993)
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Reviews Counted:9
Fresh:4
Rotten:5
Average Rating:5/10
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... [More]
Starring: Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Ed Harris, Holly Hunter
Director: Sydney Pollack
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Reviews for The Firm
1 - 9 (sorted by date)
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.
05/26/08
Top CriticA smooth adaptation of John Grisham's giant bestseller that is destined to be one of the summer's strong audience pleasers.
05/26/08
Top CriticThe 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.
05/20/03
Top CriticThe book moved at turbo speed. At two and a half hours, the movie crawls.
05/12/01
Top CriticVery little of what made the written version so enjoyable has been successfully translated to the screen, and what we're left with instead is an overly-long (two hours and thirty-four minutes, to be exact), pedantic thriller.
01/01/00
Top CriticCruise was born to play company man, and the role is an opportunity to sum up his old roles and transcend them with his most potently emotional work.
01/01/00
Top CriticPollack makes a solid job of it, as does Cruise. But solid isn't enough when it comes to thrillers -- or courtroom dramas, for that matter. Solid is great when it comes to office furniture.
01/01/00
Top CriticWith a screenplay that developed the story more clearly, this might have been a superior movie, instead of just a good one with some fine performances.
01/01/00
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