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 The Firm 

What grade would you give this film?
A 57%  57%  [ 4 ]
B 14%  14%  [ 1 ]
C 29%  29%  [ 2 ]
D 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
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The Firm is a 1993 legal thriller film directed by Sydney Pollack, and starring Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Holly Hunter, Gary Busey, and David Strathairn. The film is based on the 1991 novel The Firm by author John Grisham. Holly Hunter was nominated for the 1994 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, but lost to her co-star in The Piano, Anna Paquin.


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Best John Grisham movie. It's not one minute boring. Always keeps you interested and gets more and more exciting. Cruise is great here. A


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Great Grisham book, and a great movie. I would say A Time To Kill is a little better, but this is still excellent/

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2 1/2 year bump saw this on tv good stuff

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Caught this on Netflix - fantastic thriller with an incredibly vast cast. Ed Harris, Gene Hackman, Gary Busey, Jigsaw, Dean Norris as a goon, even freaking Wilford Brimley who gets kicked to death by Tom Cruise.

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Oh, and Holly Hunter is awesome in this.


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Yeah, it is a great film that I don't watch often enough. A

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Nice solid thriller, with a good setup. It's well written and we see Cruise in one of those roles made for him, Tripplehorn is also stunning as the wife. Hackman plays the suave senior lawyer well, but plays second fiddle actually to the rest of the great cast. I'm not totally in love with it though, it's a bit too brooding in the beginning, and the suspense in the second half of the film doesn't reach the highs of other legal and spy thrillers released before and after it. But the film is springy whenever Cruise is on screen, its entertaining to find him get a way out of his situation and his charisma keeps things interesting till the last minute.

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I just watched this for the first time in a while, and Dean Norris and Tobin Bell are the mafia's enforcers. I don't remember them being in it, so this film is like the gift that keeps on giving.

Anyway, sadly they don't make films like this anymore. It's a classic thriller.

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I was torn on this one. For most of the first half I was kinda bored and on my phone, occasionally popping up to say "oh hey it's Catherine Zeta Jones" or "oh hey its Gary Busey" or "oh hey its Tobin Bell." Could not have cared less about Tom Cruise pretending to grow a conscious just to get out of some jail time.

Yet the finale, with Tom being chased and Holly using sexpionage, ended up being pretty exciting and I felt like the story, as a whole, was pretty satisfying. A new take on the classic tale of Al Capone being taken down by unpaid taxes, or in this case Mail Fraud. Tom's meeting with the Goodfellas at the end was probably the best scene in the whole movie.

So I'll give it a 6/10. Not one of my favorites, but also not very damaging to its letterbox average.


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You should have turned your phone off and watched the film in its entirety. Then you might have seen that it wasn't Catherine Zeta-Jones, it was Jeanne Tripplehorn. ;)

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You should have turned your phone off and watched the film in its entirety. Then you might have seen that it wasn't Catherine Zeta-Jones, it was Jeanne Tripplehorn. ;)
I thought CZJ was the girl on the beach that he sleeps with, but turns out it was Karina Lombard.


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I wouldn't have blamed him if it was Zeta-Jones, lol.

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This was huge when it was released based on the fact that Grisham book was HUGE and off course Cruise. I remember as a 15-year-old wanting to see this badly and eventually did a year later on VHS.

It is a bit of a classic now so definitely want to rewatch it.

The book is very good too (would be great if Grisham went back to these types of thrillers)

Karina Lombard - forgot she was in this. Jeanne Triplehorn was a mid 90s staple but i remember her most from Basic Instinct for obvious reasons.

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I remember her most from Waterworld. She actually wasn't in an awful lot relative to how much I thought she was and/or how prominent she felt growing up in the 90s.

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