The Firm (1993)
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Reviews Counted: 50 Fresh: 38 Rotten:12 Average Rating: 6.2/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 34 mins
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 student, turns down offers at the top law firms to take a position at a small but wealthy... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Ed Harris, Holly Hunter, David Strathairn
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Reviews
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
Top Critic
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.
05/26/08
Top Critic
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.
05/26/08
A 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 Critic
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.
07/15/06
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.
03/04/06
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posted by Scott Weinberg July 21, 2005
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