The Firm (1993)

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Rating: R

Release Date: Jun 30, 1993

Running Time: 153 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gene Hackman, Hal Holbrook, Terry Kinney, Wilford Brimley, Ed Harris, Holly Hunter, David Strathairn, Gary Busey

director: Sydney Pollack

A Harvard Law School grad discovers that the law firm he has recently joined is run by the Mafia.

December 8, 2000

The Firm

662 8-5-93
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…