The Firm

Sydney Pollack directs Tom Cruise (A Few Good Men; Collateral) in this fast-paced legal thriller based on John Grisham’s best-selling novel. Lured by extraordinary financial perks, Mitch McDeere (Tom Cruise), a young and hungry Harvard Law student, turns down offers at the top law firms to take a position at a small but wealthy Memphis firm. Mitch, a boy from the wrong side of the tracks fueled by ambition and greed, ignores his wife Abby's initial misgivings about the suspiciously paternalistic practices of his new employers. It's only when two of his fellow lawyers die in a mysterious accident that Mitch begins to share her apprehensions. He then launches an investigation into the true nature of the firm and discovers that it is a front for a complex and sinister web of organized crime, one from which no lawyer has managed to escape alive. Solid storytelling and fine performances bring this seemingly improbable situation straight into reality. This film also stars Academy Award Winner Gene Hackman and Ed Harris.