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Watching "The Firm," I realized that law firms have replaced Army platoons as Hollywood's favorite microcosm. The new law thrillers have the same ingredients as those dependable old World War II action films: various ethnic and personality types who fight with each other when they're not fighting the enemy. The law movies have one considerable advantage: the female characters participate fully in all the action, instead of just staying home and writing letters to the front.

In "The Firm," a labyrinthine 153-minute film by Sydney Pollack , Tom Cruise plays Mitch McDeere, a poor boy who is ashamed of his humble origins now that he has graduated from Harvard Law fifth in his class. He gets offers from the top law firms in New York and Chicago, but finally settles on a smaller firm headquartered in Memphis. His decision is salary-driven; he sees money as security, although later in the film he is unable to say how rich he'd have to be to feel really secure.

Mitch moves to Memphis with his wife, Abby ( Jeanne Tripplehorn , the peculiar psychiatrist in " Basic Instinct "). They are provided with a house and a shiny new Mercedes - both bugged, as it turns out. And gradually McDeere begins to realize his new law firm is in league with the devil. An FBI man spills the beans: only a quarter of the clients are above-board, and the rest are thieves, scoundrels and money-launderers, with the firm's partners acting as bagmen shipping the money to offshore banks.

Some movies about the law oversimplify the legal aspects.

This one milks them for all they're worth. Without revealing too much of the plot, I can say that McDeere is eventually being blackmailed simultaneously by both the FBI and the firm's security chief (kindly old Wilford Brimley , very effective in a rare outing as a villain).

To save himself, he has to use both brain and muscle, outrunning killers and outthinking lawyers, to save both his life and his license to practice law.

The story is fairly clear in its general outlines, but sometimes baffling on the specifics. Based on the novel by John Grisham , as adapted by three of the most expensive screenwriters in the business ( David Rabe , Robert Towne and David Rayfiel ), "The Firm" takes 2 1/2 hours to find its way through a moral and legal maze. By the end, despite McDeere's breathless explanations during phone calls in the middle of a chase sequence, I was fairly confused about his strategy. But I didn't care, since the form of the movie was effective even when the details were vague.

Sydney Pollack, the director, likes to make long, ambitious movies ("Out Of Africa," "Havana") and he's comfortable working with familiar stars; he uses them as character-building shorthand. One glimpse of Hal Holbrook as the head of the Firm, for example, and we know it's a shady outfit. Holbrook almost always plays the seemingly respectable man with dark secrets. One look at Gene Hackman , as the law partner who becomes Cruise's mentor, and we know he's a flawed but fundamentally decent man, because he always is. One look at Cruise and we feel comfortable, because he embodies sincerity. He is also, in many of his roles, just a little slow to catch on; his characters seem to trust people too easily, and so it's convincing when he swallows the Firm's pitches and pep talks.

The movie is virtually an anthology of good small character performances. Ed Harris , sinister with a shaved head, needs only a couple of brief scenes to convincingly explain the FBI's case against the Firm - and to reveal its cheerful willingness to subject a potential witness to unendurable pressure. Another effective performance is by David Strathairn , as the brother McDeere hasn't told the Firm about, because he's doing time for manslaughter.

Strathairn is emerging as one of the most interesting character actors around (he was the slow-witted movie usher in " Lost In Yonkers ," and the local boy who came courting in " Passion Fish ").

There are also colorful performances by Gary Busey , as a fast-talking private eye, and by Holly Hunter , as his loyal secretary who witnesses a murder and then becomes McDeere's courageous partner.

The large gallery of characters makes "The Firm" into a convincing canvas; there are enough believable people here to give McDeere a convincing world to occupy. And Pollack is patient with his material. He'll let a scene play until the point is made a little more deeply. That allows an actor like Hackman to be surprisingly effective in scenes where he subtly establishes that, despite everything, he has a good heart. A late, tricky scene between Hackman and Tripplehorn is like a master class in acting.

The parts of "The Firm" are probably better than the whole, however. The movie lacks overall clarity, and in the last half-hour audiences are likely to be confused over what's happening, and why.

As I said, that didn't bother me overmuch, once I realized the movie would work even if I didn't always follow it. But with 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.

Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.

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The Firm (1993)

Rated R For Language and Violence

153 minutes

Tom Cruise as Mitch McDeere

Jeanne Tripplehorn as Abby McDeere

Gene Hackman as Avery Tolar

Hal Holbrook as Oliver Lamber

Directed by

• Sydney Pollack
• Robert Towne
• David Rayfiel
• John Grisham

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Grisham thriller has lots of twists, turns but is overlong.

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What you will—and won't—find in this movie.

There's considerable lying, manipulating, spyi

A lot of off-screen violence: talk of two lawyers

Mitch makes out with his wife, talks about cooking

Considerable salty language, including "son o

We see quite a few Mercedes, and there's menti

Several characters drink to the point of being dru

Parents need to know that this thriller based on a John Grisham novel contains considerable discussion of violence, corruption, and sexism. Women are treated as objects to either have affairs with or to bear their husbands' children. Mitch cheats on his wife. Several characters die, three of them on-screen and two…

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There's considerable lying, manipulating, spying, blackmail, and terrorizing. One man talks about raping a girl, saying, "It was just statutory rape." Another man refers to the only female lawyer in the firm as "affirmative action on stilts."

Violence & Scariness

A lot of off-screen violence: talk of two lawyers being killed on a boat that inexplicably explodes, talk of suicide and death. Some thugs repeatedly wound a man by shooting off a part of his ear and then grazing his shoulder before killing him on screen. Mitch kills one man by dropping heavy weights on him and beats another man to death.

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Sex, Romance & Nudity

Mitch makes out with his wife, talks about cooking food naked, and has sex with another woman on a beach. Nothing graphic is shown other than some finger sucking and the unbuttoning of clothes. Avery flirts with and tries to seduce Abby.

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Considerable salty language, including "son of a bitch," "hell," "f--k," "motherf--ker," "c--ksucker," and "s--t."

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Products & Purchases

We see quite a few Mercedes, and there's mention of Red Stripe beer and Hilton hotels.

Drinking, Drugs & Smoking

Several characters drink to the point of being drunk. Avery drinks so much he passes out. Lamar drinks beer and smokes after he realizes that his coworkers have been killed. Abby drinks when she's unhappy with her husband.

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Parents need to know that this thriller based on a John Grisham novel contains considerable discussion of violence, corruption, and sexism. Women are treated as objects to either have affairs with or to bear their husbands' children. Mitch cheats on his wife. Several characters die, three of them on-screen and two of them by the supposed good-guy. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails .

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What's the story.

Tom Cruise is Mitch McDeere, a poor kid who grew up to graduate from Harvard Law School as one of the top five students. He's a whiz, but he's worked for everything he's got and he never got over his mom living in a trailer park. So when Bandini Lambert and Locke, a small Memphis law firm, offer him a huge salary, a house, a car and, most importantly, a sense of family, he moves his life, and his wife, Abby ( Jeanne Tripplehorn , who looks oddly similar to Katherine Heigl in this film) to the south. There, he discovers that, like a quiet suburban neighborhood, all is not what it appears. But can he get himself and Abby out before it destroys his life, his career, and his family -- and before he loses his life?

Is It Any Good?

Like all good dime-store thrillers, The Firm keeps you guessing and moves the plot along quickly through its many twists and turns. Still, that's not enough to make up for the indulgent length (2 1/2 hours) and one-dimensional characters. That is, except for slimy mentor Avery ( Gene Hackman ), who is conniving, scared, remorseful and libidinous all at once. He's fun to watch and the movie's only comic relief.

Don't expect the Hitchcock-level suspense The Firm clearly aims for. It twists and turns successfully, but the running time is tiring and the plot still sticks to a formula. You know Cruise's character will survive. The only question is How? Unlike thrillers like The Bourne Identity and its sequels, The Firm is predictable.

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Movie Details

• In theaters : May 22, 1993
• On DVD or streaming : May 23, 2000
• Cast : Gene Hackman , Jeanne Tripplehorn , Tom Cruise
• Director : Sydney Pollack
• Inclusion Information : Female actors
• Studio : Paramount Pictures
• Genre : Thriller
• Run time : 154 minutes
• MPAA rating : R
• MPAA explanation : language and some violence
• Last updated : February 11, 2024

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"The Firm" is 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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“ The Firm ” is a smooth adaptation of John Grisham ‘s giant bestseller that is destined to be one of the summer’s strong audience pleasers. Tom Cruise’s hotshot lawyer bent on toppling his corrupt bosses could be a brother to his character in “A Few Good Men,” and grosses for this easily digestible popcorn picture should approach, if probably not equal, those of the actor’s winter hit.

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The millions of readers who made Grisham’s novel the best-selling book of 1991 are in for a few extra plot twists in the final third of the story, as director Sydney Pollack and his trio of high-powered screenwriters have added some dramatic and ethical complexity to this yarn about a young man caught between the rock of his conspiratorial law firm and the hard place of government pressure to expose his employers’ criminal practices.

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The story is of the artificial, instantly disposable variety that doesn’t warrant much serious discussion or provoke thought afterward, but it is enacted with sufficient conviction by everyone before and behind the camera that it provides the kind of absorbing, pulpy, old-fashioned movie experience that mainstream viewers appreciate on the infrequent occasions that one is offered to them.

Cruise portrays Mitch McDeere, a much-sought-after Harvard grad who shuns enticing entreaties from big city law offices in favor of a fat offer from a small Memphis concern that promotes itself as a family.

Mitch’s teacher wife Abby ( Jeanne Tripplehorn ) smells a rat from the outset, since the firm imposes unusually rigid codes of personal behavior, but Mitch jumps in with the enthusiasm of a puppy, working all hours, currying favor with the boss (Hal Holbrook) and lunching with self-appointed mentor Avery Tolar (Gene Hackman).

After two of the firm’s attorneys die in a mysterious boating accident, Mitch and Avery head to the Cayman Islands to investigate, and a chance encounter with a beautiful woman on the beach leads Mitch to a night of indiscretion despite a marriage that seems quite ideal.

Another skeleton in Mitch’s closet is his brother Ray (David Strathairn), a convict doing time for manslaughter.

When Mitch begins to suspect that the firm could be responsible for the deaths of four of its employees over the years, Ray puts his brother on to private eye Eddie Lomax (Gary Busey), who is promptly murdered by two firm hitmen for sticking his nose in the wrong places.

When Mitch is informed by the Justice Dept. that not only is the firm under investigation, but that no one has ever left its employ alive, the young man finds himself in a vise that squeezes him tight from then on.

It is in the working out of this dilemma that Grisham’s tale has been altered , and the ambitious, go-getting nature of the main character has been shaded with an almost impossibly clever scheme to have his cake and eat it too while remaining within the law. His wife has also been given an added mission that creates some extra suspense and pathos.

Rebounding from his biggest career flop with “Havana,” Sydney Pollack has done an ultra-pro job in giving spit and polish to this star-driven, sure-fire commercial project. Close attention has been paid to story structure, as the narrative is advanced in every sequence, and types of scenes are alternated carefully.

A few Hitchcockian touches are inserted in the late going, and the film takes on a somewhat different feel at that point as Pollack begins cross-cutting among three different sets of action.

The Tyrone Power of his generation, Cruise hits notes of determination, all-nighter energy and gradually developing standards and smarts that he has hit before, particularly in most recent role, but one couldn’t imagine anyone better for this sort of star turn except for Robert Redford 25 years ago.

At times uncannily resembling Genevieve Bujold, Tripplehorn gets to do a bit more than hold down the home front and express doubt and fury at her husband’s long hours. Hackman (who is unbilled in paid advertising for the picture, although credited onscreen) turns in another sterling performance as a top lawyer with unexpected depths of pain and remorse.

Supporting cast is stellar indeed. Most indelible etchings are offered by Strathairn as Cruise’s insightful brother; Holly Hunter as Busey’s tartish, resourceful secretary; Busey himself as an engagingly down-home detective; Ed Harris, shaven bald to play a tough, frequently frustrated FBI agent; and Wilford Brimley as the ruthless enforcer on the firm’s staff.

All technical hands have contributed to the unimpeachable Hollywood veneer of the package, although the percussive, non-orchestral score by Dave Grusin proves effectively different at times and intrusive at others.

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• Production: A Paramount release of a John Davis/Scott Rudin/Mirage production. Produced by Rudin, Davis, Sydney Pollack. Executive producers, Michael Hausman, Lindsay Doran. Directed by Pollack. Screenplay, David Rabe, Robert Towne, David Rayfiel, based on the novel by John Grisham.
• Crew: Camera (Technicolor; Deluxe prints), John Seale; editors, William Steinkamp, Frederic Steinkamp; music, Dave Grusin; production design, Richard Macdonald; art direction, John Willett; set decoration, Casey Hallenbeck; costume design, Ruth Myers; sound (Dolby), David MacMillan; assistant director, David McGiffert; casting, David Rubin. Reviewed at the National Theater, L.A., June 24, 1993. MPAA Rating: R. Running time: 154 min.
• With: Mitch McDeere - Tom Cruise Abby McDeere - Jeanne Tripplehorn Avery Tolar - Gene Hackman Oliver Lambert - Hal Holbrook Lamar Quinn - TerryKinney William Devasher - Wilford Brimley Wayne Tarrance - Ed Harris Tammy Hemphill - Holly Hunter Ray McDeere - David Strathairn Eddie Lomax - Gary Busey F. Denton Voyles - Steven Hill The Nordic Man - Tobin Bell Kay Quinn - Barbara Garrick Royce McKnight - Jerry Hardin Thomas Richie - Paul Calderon Sonny Capps - Jerry Weintraub Barry Abanks - Sullivan Walker Nathan Locke - John Beal Young Woman on Beach - Karina Lombard

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The Firm Review

01 Jan 1993

155 minutes

Sydney Pollack's adaptation of John Grisham's 1991 best­seller is a big, lumbering, occasionally invigorating Star Vehicle, with most of the menace that propelled Grisham's gripping page-turner diluted in favour of a more Gary Grant-ish take on the classic Hollywood conspiracy thriller. Lacking the paranoia of Pollack's own Three Days Of The Condor, it's also gelatinous, sloppy and over-indulgent, yet somehow manages to make the grade as a pulpy, old-fashioned movie experience.

Tom Cruise is Mitch McDeere, a brash, grin-flashing hotshot, top in his Harvard law class and Wall Street-bound until the small Memphis law firm of Bendini, Lambert & Locke lure him down South with a stupendous salary, gorgeous house and new Mercedes. It seems too good to be true, and, of course, it is, with McDeere's more intuitive, earthy wife Abby (Tripplehorn) smelling a rat when wholesome cult-like firm members start sounding like a cross between Dan Quayle and the Stepford Wives. No one has ever left The Firm alive, but McDeere isn't totally clued into the fact that he's made a Faustian career deal with a pit of wire-tapping, blue-blooded vipers until abrasive cue ball FBI agent Ed Harris fills him in on Bendini's Mafia money-laundering ways and offers him two choices: break the legal code of honour and get enough dirt to indict the firm, or prepare for 20 years in the slammer when Bendini inevitably goes down.

This is a film powered along by several meaty and flamboyant character turns. Besides Harris, the more memorable etchings are made by Hackman, brilliant, as always, as Cruise's cynical, ultimately remorseful mentor, Avery Tolar; Gary Busey as a seedy private investigator; Holly Hunter as Busey's tarty secretary and Cruise's partner-in-Mob-busting; and David Strathairn as McDeere's wise, soulful convict brother. Indeed, without the performances, this would mostly be a non-starter, since Pollack didn't so much direct this as blandly guide it along the safest, risk-free path to commercial bonanza, making numerous plot changes en route from page to screen. Nonetheless, Cruise fans won't be disappointed and there are enough dizzying new twists in the somewhat convoluted final act to keep Grisham fans entertained without totally alienating them. Instantly forgettable, but with undeniable pulp appeal.

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Vincent Canby, New York Times : 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. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly : 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. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews : Very 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. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times : With 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. Read more

Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine : Tom Cruise heads a tony cast in a best-seller movie that is firm at the start and infirm by the end. Read more

Wally Hammond, Time Out : Adorning the film, in supporting roles, are its saving graces. Read more

Todd McCarthy, Variety : A smooth adaptation of John Grisham's giant bestseller that is destined to be one of the summer's strong audience pleasers. Read more

Joe Brown, Washington Post : Cruise 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. Read more

Rita Kempley, Washington Post : Pollack 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. Read more

Firm, The (United States, 1993)

Mitchell Y. McDeere (Tom Cruise) has just graduated in the top five of his class from Harvard Law School. With a record like his, there are understandably a lot of people interested in employing him. Offers abound from the large, the prestigious, and the desirable, but eventually it's a small firm from Memphis that snares Mitch's services. Bendini, Lambert, and Locke make the terms of his joining so enticing that the deal is impossible to turn down -- a starting salary near $100,000, a low-interest mortgage so he can buy a house, free use of a Mercedes, and repayment of his college loans. At first, Mitch and his wife Abby (Jeanne Tripplehorne) eagerly celebrate their new life and home, but it doesn't take long for the euphoria to wear thin. Two members of the Firm die under suspicious circumstances, and soon Mitch begins to wonder what secrets lie behind the locked doors of Bendini, Lambert, and Locke.

John Grisham's novel The Firm is a furious page-turner, the kind of book that you don't want to put down once you've started reading it. The main characters are developed in such a way that the reader cares about their fate. The setup (roughly the first 100 pages) is perhaps the novel's greatest strength and, even though the eventual resolution lacks punch, few would deny that The Firm is an entertaining read.

Sydney Pollack's film The Firm is the kind of movie that almost anyone could walk out on without feeling that they've missed much, regardless of whether they've read the book or not. Very 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.

The plot is a good place to start the discussion. This is the book's weakest element and, if anything, it's worse in the movie. While the final "twist" in the script (which in no way resembles what happens in the novel) is clever, it is also difficult to accept. Let's not forget the forces that Mitch is up against. Is it reasonable to believe everything that happens in the pivotal climactic scenes?

An unfortunate tone is set during the first hour. The film spends quite a bit of time using short, often-disjointed scenes in an attempt to recapture the near-perfect mood of Grisham's setup. This would have worked nicely if those various snippets had successfully conveyed the allure of the Firm to Mitch and Abby, but things rush by too quickly and everything is out-of-sync.

On the surface, Tom Cruise and Jeanne Tripplehorne might seem to be acceptable choices for Mitch and Abby McDeere. That is, until the cameras started to roll. Cruise has at times been good in front of the camera (in pictures such as Born on the Fourth of July ), while in other instances he has done little more than show off his good looks ( Days of Thunder ). For The Firm , the star's performance falls solidly in the latter category. Not until the concluding scenes does he do anything resembling real acting, and his lack of range effectively sabotages his character. Unfortunately, Jeanne Tripplehorne is even worse, playing Abby without enthusiasm or energy.

At least the supporting cast, which includes Ed Harris, Wilford Brimley, and Gene Hackman, is strong. Not surprisingly, Hackman's Avery Tolar is the standout. Softened from his counterpart in the book, this Avery becomes the only completely real character in the film. Hackman's performance is more than half the reason why.

In its planning stages, The Firm had potential, but the production team found numerous ways to mess it up. The film doesn't quite sink to the "unwatchable" level, but I'd think twice before spending time and money in a darkened theater with this telling of Mitch McDeere's struggles. It may take longer to read the book, but the experience will be noticably more satisfying.

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Review/Film: The Firm; A Mole in the Den of Corrupt Legal Lions

By Vincent Canby

• June 30, 1993

At the time it was published in 1991, "The Firm," John Grisham's best-selling suspense novel, was described by one critic as "mean and lean." Mean, possibly, but lean? The book is 501 pages.

Now Sydney Pollack's film version far more accurately characterizes the source material. 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. It moves around the map a lot, from Boston to Memphis to the Caribbean to Washington, without getting anywhere. It is also physically elaborate, the cinematic equivalent of the book's relentlessly descriptive prose. One of its sets is reported to have required seven and a half miles of 2-by-4 lumber and 225 gallons of glue to hold it together.

But, you may well ask, what about the story? After all, underneath Mr. Grisham's verbiage but not quite suffocated by it, there is an entertaining moral tale about the 1980's:

Mitch McDeere, a bright young man, born poor and deprived, lusts for the good things in life. He graduates from Harvard Law School near the top of his class and joins a small, conservative, very rich firm of tax and corporate law specialists in Memphis. Almost immediately, he discovers that he has sold his soul to the devil. Or, as a Federal agent tells Mitch in the movie, "Your life, as you've known it, is now over."

Bendini, Lambert & Locke is a front for a conspiracy of delicious malevolence and, early on, anyway, quite persuasive complexity. Only its senior partners know its full scope. The firm has a policy of bringing aboard crackerjack young lawyers of Mitch's hungry background, and then overpaying and materially spoiling them to the point that when they find out the firm's true nature, they can't afford to quit.

There are only two ways for lawyers to exit Bendini, Lambert & Locke. They can stick around until they retire as thoroughly compromised, multi-millionaire senior partners, or they die before their time in mysterious circumstances.

Not long after he joins the firm, Mitch is approached by the F.B.I. The bureau wants him to act as a mole. They point out that his house and his office are bugged by the firm, and that at least three of his restless predecessors have been murdered. On the other hand, Mitch realizes that the firm's business associates have long memories and that no witness protection program is 100 percent reliable. What is a guy to do?

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US Release Date: 06-30-1993

Directed by: Sydney Pollack

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• Tom Cruise ,  as
• Mitch McDeere
• Jeanne Tripplehorn ,  as
• Abby McDeere
• Gene Hackman ,  as
• Avery Tolar
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John Grisham was Hollywood's go to author of the 1990s. Seven of his novels were made into major releases in that decade. The Pelican Brief would be released later in 1993. Although it was not his first published book, The Firm was his first novel to film adaptation.

At the very peak of his fame, Tom Cruise plays Mitch, the typical Grisham hero. He is a young idealist Harvard Law Graduate, who gets recruited by a small but very successful law firm in Memphis, Tennessee. He and his wife Abby move there, where their future seems financially set.

It does not take long before Abby starts to see how intrusive the firm is to their private life. All of the firm's lawyers are white married men. They had one female lawyer, but she died in a mysterious diving accident. Abby hears from some of the wives that the firm encourages the wives to stay at home and have babies. This firm seems straight out of the 1950s.

Mitch busts his ass at work with long hours and studying for the bar exam. He also soon discovers that the firm is not what he at first thought. Not only do some of the dealings seem shady but two more lawyers get killed in another diving "accident." At this point, the movie is working. The mystery of what have Mitch and Abby gotten themselves into keeps you guessing and watching.

The film's biggest problem is that it never seems to end. At 154 minutes it should have been trimmed many times over. Mitch gets in deeper and deeper with the firm, and seems to take forever to get out. His plan changes and is very complicated. Things happen, that he does not even know about, that are helping him. A simpler exit plan would have done wonders for this film.

The Firm establishes Mitch and Abby as fairly real characters. Abby came from money while Mitch was from a poor single mother. He worked his way through college. It is one of the reasons the firm is interested in him. He is hungry for money and they assume he will be easy to manipulate.

The Firm works best when Mitch and Abby find themselves in situations out of their control. The tension mounts and we wait with much anticipation for them to extricate themselves from this dilemma. Unfortunately, we wait and wait and wait.

We root for this couple. They clearly love each other. Tripplehorn has the films most romantic line. After Cruise asks if he has lost her, she replies, "I've loved you all my life. Even before we met. Part of it wasn't even you. It was just a promise of you. But these last days... You kept your promise. How could you lose me?" That sweet line comes late in the film and if Cruise had asked the audience that same question he may have gotten a different answer.

Gary Busey, Holly Hunter, and Tom Cruise in The Firm .

I agree it runs a bit long but I was still entertained by this tension filled legal thriller. The cast is good and Sydney Pollack manages to keep the storyline taut with suspense right up till the end. We're not sure just how Mitch will extricate himself and his wife from the extremely dire situation they have gotten themselves in. Eric, it really isn't all that complicated though, as long as you are paying attention. It involves over-billing and the United States Postal Service.

Tom Cruise as Mitch continued his run as the most bankable movie star in the world. He brings a fresh-faced innocence to the role of the eager young lawyer who soon has his eyes opened to the truth behind the old idiom that if something seems too good to be true, it probably is.

Gene Hackman, who I miss very much on the big screen these days, is equally good as Mitch's mentor Avery. He exudes a world weary quality that at times seems sinister and at other times is downright avuncular. He's sold his soul to the firm but he gets one last chance at redemption.

Holly Hunter was Oscar nominated for Best Supporting Actress as Tammy Hemphill, a platinum blonde, chain smoking secretary turned private investigator (see photo), in a role that totals about six minutes of screen time. She was having a great year in 1993, becoming one of just a handful of actors to receive Oscar nods in both the leading and supporting categories in the same year. She would win the Best Actress Award for her work in The Piano but lost in the supporting category to her young costar in that movie, Anna Paquin.

The Firm establishes a sense of claustrophobia early on. Mitch and Abby are trapped in a gilded cage. A cage they walked happily into hand-in-hand, not realizing the danger until the trap door had swung shut on them. As Eric said, we root for them to succeed even as they endure a problem of Mitch's own making that threatens to destroy their marriage.

The supporting cast includes Hal Holbrook as the firm's senior partner, with an evil twinkle in his eye, and Wilford Brimley plays against type as the ruthless and cunning head of the firm's security detail. Gary Busey makes the most of his two brief scenes as the private investigator hired by Mitch. There are many familiar faces in other small roles, but this is a Tom Cruise vehicle from start to finish, and he doesn't disappoint.

The Firm was a huge box office hit in 1993 and more than two decades later it remains remarkably watchable. Tom Cruise looks like he's been through the wringer by that last scene and you will feel an overwhelming sense of relief as well.

Tom Cruise in The Firm .

The Firm is the only John Grisham novel I've ever read. Even though reading it didn't turn me into his greatest fan or lead me to reading any of his other books, it's definitely superior to this watered down movie version. Very few of the many alterations to the plot are an improvement. The talented cast is the best thing about this version, anchored by Tom Cruise and Gene Hackman.

The problems with the plot mostly revolve around the beginning and the ending. From the beginning, the Firm is so odd that it makes little sense for Mitch and Abbey to accept the job with them, even with the higher salary they offer. Mitch is courted by many different law firms and yet he blindly accepts this job despite the oddities. Mitch is supposed to be a very smart hotshot young lawyer, but he never stops to consider that the Firm's offer seems to good to be true on the surface and too odd to be true beneath it.

It is the ending that differs the most from the book. In Grisham's original ending (SPOILER ALERT), Mitch makes off with millions of the Firm's money and flees to the Cayman Islands with his wife and brother. The movie goes with the blander option of having Mitch help the FBI prosecute the Firm on mail fraud. And the scene where Mitch goes to meet the mob is pure Hollywood and makes as much sense as Mitch's oft repeated phrase of Lawyer/Client confidentiality, which isn't as straightforward as the movie would have you believe.

Cruise and the rest of the cast keep the movie watchable despite the plot weaknesses. Eric calls this the height of Cruise's fame, but height of his stardom would be more accurate. He's still just as, if not more, famous, but he no longer commands the same respect as he once did. However Cruise has always been more than just a star, he's also an actor and he does a great job as Mitch.  As Patrick wrote, Mitch goes through the wringer during the final portion of the film and Cruise shows every bit of his physical, mental, and emotional exhaustion.

The rest of the cast provides great support. Hackman shines as Avery. His character is changed from the book and made much more sympathetic. Here he is just as guilty as the rest of the lawyers in the Firm, but Hackman makes him three-dimensional and very human. Holly Hunter is also terrific as Tammy and fully deserved her Oscar nomination despite the small amount of time she actually appears on screen. Jeanne Tripplehorn, David Strathairn, Ed Harris, and Wilford Brimley each add to the film in their supporting roles.

As both my brothers mentioned, the film definitely runs long. There's plenty of room for editing and tightening. And as entertaining and tense as the film is, even with the unnecessary changes, it could have been even tenser with a faster pace.

There are things to enjoy about this movie, but as is the case with plenty of films, you're better off reading the book.

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For all the money and talent lavished on filming The Firm , the best seller by former lawyer John Grisham, you can’t help feeling let down. The book moved at turbo speed. At two and a half hours, the movie crawls, even with Tom Cruise as Mitch McDeere, the Harvard Law graduate who learns that the classy Memphis, Tenn., firm he’s joined is a front for the mob. Director Sydney Pollack zapped out a taut thriller in Three Days of the Condor. But The Firm is mostly flab, in the manner of Pollack’s elephantine Havana . With a director of Pollack’s gifts ( They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, Tootsie ), one tends to make excuses. Maybe he wanted to bring taste, introspection and characterization to what was essentially a quick read. If so, it was a miscalculation.

Grisham had fun with his story; Pollack treats it like scripture. The early chapters, in which the firm dangles money, a house and a car in front of poor-boy McDeere, suckered us all in. But the movie never lets this Everyman enjoy succumbing to temptation, perhaps out of fear of losing our sympathy. His wife, Abby (Jeanne Tripplehorn), functions as a ’90s conscience about ’80s greed. Even the ending is altered to show that McDeere is smarter than everybody else. His character flaws have been downplayed to suit Cruise’s star persona.

Take McDeere’s infidelity on a business trip to the Cayman Islands, which functioned as an erotic and enlightening key to his weakness in the book. Karina Lombard, as the girl the firm has hired to seduce the lawyer on the beach, practically rapes McDeere, who stays dressed and looks uncomfortable throughout the ordeal. The scene has no heat.

The suspense scenes are scarcely better. McDeere sniffs out a conspiracy after two colleagues die under mysterious circumstances. But the head of the firm (Hal Holbrook) and the security chief (Wilford Brimley) are stock villains. The FBI, which urges McDeere to testify against the firm in exchange for dubious protection, is another easy target, though Ed Harris adds bite to the role of a kickass agent. He’s one of the minor characters who bring the film fitfully to life.

Holly Hunter is hell on high heels as Tammy Hemphill, the wife of an Elvis impersonator who cheats on her husband with a detective (Gary Busey) hired by McDeere to snoop behind the firm’s back. David Strathairn is slyly appealing as Ray, the convict brother McDeere calls on for help. “I love your crooked little mouth,” Ray tells Tammy in a scene that effortlessly sets off the sparks Cruise and Tripplehorn can’t get going.

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Best of all is Gene Hackman as Avery Tolar, McDeere’s tarnished legal mentor and the film’s idea of what McDeere could become if he sells out. Hackman gives the role a romantic grace that is eminently watchable; it’s also extraneous to a movie that takes too many dead-end detours. The humorless script, by David Rabe, Robert Towne and David Rayfiel, exposes every hole in the plot and disdains its enjoyably trashy allure. Grisham fans might well ask, “Where’s the pulp?”

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THE FIRM opens with various law firms courting Harvard Law School honors graduate Mitch McDeere (Tom Cruise). Shortly, the Memphis firm of Bendini, Lambert & Locke discretely presents their offer in a sealed envelope, which McDeere chooses not to open. Mitch is razor sharp, ambitious and happily married. Mitch and Abby are drawn into a sophisticated, prestigious lifestyle in which everything is provided. However, when a diving accident occurs involving some lawyers from the Firm, Mitch and Abby are troubled. On a business trip, Mitch finds files that confirm his worse suspicions: The Firm is a front for the Mafia; and, that no one has ever left The Firm–alive. From this point on, Mitch develops a strategy to be the first one to leave The Firm. However, The Firm covers their bases to control him. On the line for Mitch, is his desire to maintain his oath as a lawyer, to uphold the law, but at the same time, to break free from The Firm.

THE FIRM is a suspense-filled, well-directed movie that will keep viewers on the edge of their seats. The movie illustrates that each of us, like Mitch, has to choose whether to do the right thing or enrich himself. Regrettably, the movie is laced with obscenity, profanity, adultery, sexual immorality, and extreme violence.

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Old nun: (Carlita) had to go to the bad room. Margaret: Why is there a bad room? Old nun: Because some girls are bad.

Sex and Skin: Nothing at all sexy about any of this movie, although I need to warn you, there’s a shot here that’s just too AUGGGHHHHHHH for words. 

Our Take: There are enough instances of women being strapped to beds in The First Omen , it works as a screaming-loud metaphor for, oh, I dunno, some of the laws regarding choice and female bodily autonomy in this country? The context gives significant agency to what could’ve been a by-the-numbers IP flex, but instead entrenches its dread within some very real, tangible fears. Anyone surprised by this razor-sharp cultural criticism may want to de-ostrich their heads from the sand; anyone surprised that the sixth movie in a moribund franchise is thematically relevant, well-directed and frightening on multiple levels can join me in being knocked over with a feather, and in praising Stevenson – who also co-writes with Tim Smith and Keith Thomas – for creating the wiggle room to make a memorable film within the series’ narrative constraints.

Stevenson also shows an impressive eye for period-piece detail, allowing us to feel immersed in the setting and therefore more vulnerable to the heinous imagery she doles out: misc. sinister rituals, immolations, creepy-nun shit, a couple of truly shocking scenes that push the boundaries of R-rated horror nearly to a breaking point, and all but dare you to look away. It’s a frequently brave and daring movie where too many horror outings are content to pile on gore, jump scares and cliches; the film’s ooey-gooey-grossest, scariest moments hit hard and fast, but also carry dramatic weight. There are moments where one senses the director was likely compelled by her employers to wedge the story into the series’ pre-existing narrative, so the film occasionally veers into clunky and obvious moments. But for the most part, The First Omen works quite well whether you’ve seen the other films or not – and Stevenson delivers the brutality where it counts.

Our Call: Oh man, this Omen is gonna end up being one of the year’s better horror movies. STREAM IT.

John Serba is a freelance writer and film critic based in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Fair Play: release date, trailer, cast, plot and everything we know

Fair Play follows two lovers whose relationship implodes over work.

Fair Play is an erotic thriller that follows Luke and Emily, a newly-engaged couple (played by Cocaine Bear 's Alden Ehrenreich and Bridgerton star , Phoebe Dynevor ) whose power dynamic suddenly shifts after one of them receives a highly-prized promotion. After a limited theatrical release, the film is now streaming on Netflix .

Written and directed by Chloe Domont (in her feature debut), the film transports us to the offices of One Crest Capital, a fast-paced hedge fund where both of our leads work side-by-side. Billed as a film that 'unravels the uncomfortable collision of empowerment and ego', Fair Play is a twisty, tense thriller that you won't want to miss. 

Here's what you need to know about Fair Play. 

Fair Play release date

Fair Play is now available to stream on Netflix, after hitting the streaming service on October 6. Prior to its home release, the movie received a limited theatrical release on September 29.

It originally premiered at Sundance Film Festival in January 2023, and it would up being one of the most talked-about films from the line-up.

For more info about the new releases coming your way for the rest of the year, check out our guide to the biggest new movies on the horizon.

Fair Play plot

Netflix's synopsis for Fair Play reads: "When a coveted promotion at a cutthroat financial firm arises, once supportive exchanges between lovers Emily (Phoebe Dynevor) and Luke (Alden Ehrenreich) begin to sour into something more sinister. 

"As the power dynamics irrevocably shift in their relationship, the couple must face the true price of success and the unnerving limits of ambition. 

"In her feature debut, writer-director Chloe Domont weaves a taut relationship thriller, staring down the destructive gender dynamics that pit partners against each other in a world that is transforming faster than the rules can keep up. Also starring Eddie Marsan, Rich Sommer, and Sebastian De Souza, Fair Play unravels the uncomfortable collision of empowerment and ego."

Talking about her inspiration for the film with Vanity Fair , Chloe Domont revealed that the film was inspired by her earlier years in the film industry, including a similarly rocky relationship. "Why is it that even today, with all the progress that we've made, a man's success is a win for the relationship, but when it's the other way around, it feels like a threat? It felt like something that so many of us experience but are afraid to talk about and to confront", she said.

Fair Play reviews

Fair Play has reviewed pretty well, so far! At the time of writing, Fair Play is certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with an 87% Critics Rating and an Audience Rating just a few points lower at 83%.

Observer rated the film 3.5/4, praising the performances and arguing 'You want not part of this story in real life, but it's so much fun to watch'.

Empire labeled the film 'a slickly made tale of twisted love that keeps you holding your breath until the end'.

Who's in the Fair Play cast?

As we mentioned, Fair Play stars Alden Ehrenreich ( Cocaine Bear, Solo ) and Phoebe Dynevor ( Bridgerton, Bank of Dave ) as the warring couple, Luke and Emily.

Talking about her first reaction to the film's screenplay with Queue , Dynevor said: "I think my initial reaction, honestly, was just silence. It spoke to me in a way that no script really ever has."

Ehrenreich added: "When I first read the script, I was really struck by how personal it felt. You can kind of feel when a writer is writing something that is born out of their actual experience."   

In addition, the film also features Eddie Marsan as their boss, Campbell, and Rich Sommer as Paul and Sebastian De Souza as Rory, two other portfolio managers at the office.

Is there a trailer?

A new Fair Play trailer arrived on September 26, and it's just as intense as the first. Quickly, the pair go from being a happy, lucky-in-love couple to two warring, high-flying finance workers.

You can also find the original trailer from earlier in the year below:

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Netflix's TikTok Doc: The Unsettling Reality Behind 'Dancing for the Devil'

The exposé investigates allegations of abuse and cult activity against social media management firm 7M Films.

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The world of a social media influencer is full of ups and downs. One minute you could be struggling to get views on a cute dance video, and the next may find that you're the subject of an eye-opening Netflix documentary. Dancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult is that doc. 

The three-episode docuseries shines a light on the journey of viral dance star Miranda Derrick. Before making it big in Hollywood, Derrick and her sister, Melanie, took their dance skills to social media, performing on TikTok as the Wilking Sisters . When she moved to Los Angeles, Derrick, who's now married to dance partner James "BDash" Derrick, met a group of like-minded influencers with whom she created a slew of fun dance videos. 

As her profile rose, communication with family was allegedly severed, prompting concerns about her well-being. Rumors of abuse swirled. Cult allegations against her management company 7M Films and its owner, Robert Shinn, the pastor of a mysterious religious organization called Shekinah Church, soon followed.

The first three episodes of Dancing for the Devil focus on Derrick and the group of TikTokers under Shinn's guidance, the allegations against 7M Films, its associated Shekinah Church and the steps the Wilking family, along with former church members, are taking to find closure. The drama behind the doc continues to unfold, though, leaving many to wonder if more episodes will be in the popular Netflix documentary's future.

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Miranda Derrick, James "BDash" Derrick and Melanie Wilking in Dancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult on Netflix.

Similar to the recent docuseries that explored the inner-workings of groups like NXIVM and Scientology, Dancing for the Devil examines the alleged cult activity associated with 7M Films and Shekinah Church -- the interlinked companies that manage a group of TikTok performers. 

Attention toward Shinn, his management company and church kicked up in 2022 when Wilking and her parents posted a video on Instagram Live about their personal family matters. After their lawsuit against Shekinah and 7M failed, they resorted to going public and accused 7M and Shekinah Church of being a cult. In the video, the family said that they "aren't allowed to contact" Derrick and that she blocked them on all social media, and they talked about other dancers in her crew that they said could have been under Shinn's influence. 

Since its premiere, Dancing for the Devil has flipped the social media dance world on its head. Could a cult be operating amid this landscape of content creators and viral TikTok dancers? The Netflix doc alleges so. 

Derrick and  7M Films  have since posted responses on Instagram, refuting the claims put forth in the documentary. "I believe that this documentary is a one-sided story," Derrick said in an Instagram story, according to People. "I gave my life to Jesus Christ in 2020 and asked my family for some space in the very beginning to collect my thoughts and process my new walk I wanted to take with God."

This isn't the first time allegations have been made regarding Shinn's businesses and religious teachings. The connection between 7M Films and Shekinah Church was previously explored by The Daily Beast, which said the church had a "bare bones presence online." 

The Wilking family's social media post created a domino effect that led to the exit of three dancers from Shekinah and 7M, with the trio joining a new lawsuit against Shinn, alleging abuses of power and cultlike behavior. 

According to Rolling Stone, the dancers -- Aubrey Fisher-Greene, Kylie Douglas and Kevin "Konkrete" Davis -- added to the cross-complaint submitted to court in early 2023, saying: "Robert refers to himself as 'the Man of God' and preaches to Shekinah members ... that without submitting to him and without Shekinah, their lives will be cursed. Robert required full physical and economic ... control over Shekinah members."

Like previous documentaries of a similar ilk, Dancing for the Devil explores how alleged cults can attract people and the ways groups such as these maintain control over their members.

"I think audiences will be surprised by how easily regular people can get sucked into cult-like groups and how devastating the impact can be on families, friends, and communities," Derek Doneen, the director of Dancing for the Devil, revealed to Netflix's Tudum site. "I'm in awe of the families who let us in as they worked tirelessly to rescue their loved ones."

The TikTok Cult doc looks at Shekinah Church's history 

Kelly and Dean Wilking in Dancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult on Netflix.

Shekinah Church opened its doors in 1991. According to a court case filed back in 2009, Shinn's alleged behavior and the accusations against him and the church can be traced back decades.

The Cut reported that Lydia Chung, a former Shekinah member, made a formal complaint against the pastor for "exerting undue influence, mind control, coercive persuasion, oppression and other intimidating tactics including taking over her email, passwords, and bank accounts, in an effort to get her to turn over millions of dollars that Chung says were used by Shinn and his family to pay for entertainment, living expenses, medical bills and Shinn's girlfriend's law school tuition." 

Dancing for the Devil digs into the church's history and these past allegations, and connects them with Shekinah's present-day position. Like Chung, the dancers suing 7M say that Shinn used control tactics to siphon money to feed his extravagant lifestyle. 

There's been plenty of speculation about Shinn's alleged deeds over the years, but solid details about 7M, Shekinah and the TikTok dancers he's affiliated with, have remained slim. Dancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult aims to shed some much needed light on the topic.

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