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The Firm
Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the more sinister side of his company. Then, two Associates are murdered. The FBI contact him, asking him for information and suddenly his life is ruined. He has a choice - work with the FBI, or stay with the Firm. Either way he will lose his life as he knows it. Mitch figures the only way out is to follow his own plan...
1993 · Directed by Sydney Pollack · 154 min · Drama · Mystery · Thriller · 24 frames
Tagline
Power can be murder to resist.
Crew
- Screenplay: Robert Towne, David Rabe, David Rayfiel
- Cinematography: John Seale
- Edited by: Fredric Steinkamp, William Steinkamp
- Music: Dave Grusin
- Production design: Richard Macdonald
- Produced by: Scott Rudin, Sydney Pollack, John Davis
Cast
- Tom Cruise as Mitch McDeere
- Jeanne Tripplehorn as Abby McDeere
- Gene Hackman as Avery Tolar
- Hal Holbrook as Oliver Lambert
- Terry Kinney as Lamar Quinn
- Wilford Brimley as William Devasher
- Ed Harris as Wayne Tarrance
- Holly Hunter as Tammy Hemphill
- David Strathairn as Ray McDeere
- Gary Busey as Eddie Lomax
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Mirage Enterprises, Paramount Pictures, Davis Entertainment, Scott Rudin Productions
- Budget: $42,000,000
- Box office: $270,248,367
- Themes: blackmail, married couple, fbi, cayman islands, memphis, tennessee, mafia, lawyer, death, law firm, paranoid
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