Product ReviewsThe Firm (DVD, 2000, Sensormatic)

Christopher Lee Rhyne Review 24

Tom Cruise has always been a favorite to watch even when on VHS in 1993. High society tycoons search for a young newbe to join the ranks but firm tactics keep employees close at hand. And when those employees try to leave they end up murdered.

Interest and adventure plus action, whats going to happen next. Actors/actress, the FBI, a handful of employees from past get murdered by the security company hired by The Firm. Mitch McDeere his Harvard Law degree will not match a small Memphis Firm.

ACTORS / DIRECTORS / WRITERS / PRODUCERS
Actors: Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gene Hackman, Hal Holbrook, Terry Kinney
Directors: Sydney Pollack
Producers: John Davis, Lindsay Doran, Michael Hausman
Writers: David Rabe, David Rayfiel, John Grisham, Robert Towne
My DVD copy was Anamophic. Closed Caption ((2.0 Surround Sound)), NTSC Region 1 for Canada and USA. English & French languages. 154 minutes Color picture. Released in 2005 on Paramount Home Video.

Investigation work from Mitch will unravel secrets (firm hours charged) also includes mob organization. Mitch and his wife Abby have a fallen out when Mitch commits adultery in the resort town on one of his trips. Avery his mentor plays mere truth twisted inside lies and trickery.

The FBI, The Mob, The Firm...............

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Too good to be true? But, what would you do?

You have got to love John Grisham, as I love his style of putting a story together can keep you busy for a time that draws on your private times with your family, kids, and chores.
"The Firm", eh? Made me grin, several times.Things are coming...quickly!
Here's Mitch McDeere, just out of Harvard , 3rd in his class, owing money to the U.S.GVMT. for most , if not all of his costs of his four-[4] years in Harvard, and he never let up as "Abby" , his wife, and their pet dog, struggled through the whole affair of studying and taking every minute of the days that were avail. to do so, as he knew he would be rewarded, after all, he's a "believing" type, who knows that all things come back to visit you, both good & evil.
He has "Bendini","Blah-blah & "Blah" of Tn. romancing him like a $1000.00 whore, although he has an impeccable record throughout his life, he is now tempted beyond what any moral man could bear, when offers from this 40-lawyer firm [which is rather small], holds out to him $185K per annum position, and offers to get rid of that "pig" he's been driving and smokin' through college.
All he has to do is go and pick their color..can you dig it? Oh, yes and the keys. He has his grants from our Uncle Sam paid up and a sweet low-percentage Mortgage is offered to him from "The Bendini" Firm , and all this is happening while he is being wooed by Chicago and bigger firms from all over the US are still coming in~!
Yeah, Grisham, a Lawyer, a good lawyer, is telling you what he knows from the heart and soul, as he had been in Mitch McDeere's place many times, only, he is here telling you what a "real dream job" is, and if you would JUMP at it or "kick it around" some.
But, Grisham, puts in more salt than this novel can hold, and really puts "US", the readers to "the test" in this tale of Playing on Greed, Power, Fear, as the F.B.I. is sniffing around McDeere like a "bitch-in-heat".
They know something of the firm that they want from Mr. Mitch..and they figure that a cool few $100K ought to bring him under their roof, and help out with some badly wanted information, very badly wanted.
Mitch? He wants the position, as the "Firm" seems to be a dream machine, there to fulfill all of his and Abby's dreams, as they want him to have very little pressure from the work, and so the heavy offers!~!~! There had to be a reason for all of this "life-bling".They have something in mind, or is it the F.B.I., and a new guy named "Tarrance" is introduced into the fray by becoming the main broker between the Bureau and Mitch McDeere.
Mitch is enticed,waltzed by the "FIBBIE" to come with them on a search of the "Firm's" activities, especially in the Grande Caymans, where Mitch goes as his first assignment when he does buy the "Firm's deal".
Don't think you know how this is going down, because as Mitch and a Firm partner named "Abanks" take off to the Caymans for his first working vacation, to get him introduced into the "way" things are done, with the Partners, some recently died, and mourned as they were 20-year men, and faithful, as Mitch was expected to be too, but, soon, moralistic McDeere is being watched by everyone next to him as he finds out that even his house is being "bugged", but wait, the Firm wants upstanding family men with kids, and 2 cats in the yard. What's going on?
Loved this book as I shrugged to start it off, and smiled when I closed the book, no, rather I laughed, loudly!
It's good to be "the boss"! RickRead full review...

A Complex Suspense-Drama Great Legal, Crime Thriller

This is a long but pretty solid drama-suspense story about corporate corruption. A young lawyer (Tom Cruise) joins a prestigious law firm only to discover that it has a sinister dark side.
The film features a well-known cast, Wilfred Brimley, Gene Hackman, Hal Holbrook, Holly Hunter, Robert Strathairn and Ed Harris all make this a really deep, The large gallery of characters makes The Firm into a convincing canvas.Read full review...

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The Firm delivers

Fast paced action and suspense. Very good movie.

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THE FIRM (DVD,2000, SENSORMATIC(

CRUISE PLAYS MITCH MCDEERE,A BRILLIANT AND AMBITIOUS HARVARD LAW GRAD. DRIVEN BY FIERCE DESIRE TO BURY HIS WORKING-CLASS PAST,MITCH JOINS A SMALL,PROSPEROUS MEMPHIS FIRM THAT AFFORDS MITCH AND HIS WIFE (JEANNE TRIPPLEHORN) AN AFFLUENT LIFESTYLE BEYOND THEIR WILDEST DREAMS. BUT WHEN FBI AGENTS CONFRONT HIM WITH EVIDENCE OF CORRUPTION AND MURDER WITHIN THE FIRM,MITCH SETS OUT TO FIND THE TRUTH IN A DEADLY CROSSFIRE BETWEEN THE FBI,THE MOB,AND A FORCE THAT WILL STOP AT NOTHING TO PROTECT ITS INTERESTS-THE FIRM.Read full review...

The Firm DVD

DVD had unknown sticky substance on it. DVD did work though. Not pleasant to deal with because not really able to fully clean it. The substance appears to be(not confirmed as) Pancake syrup.

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KEEPER for your Collection!

Great Movie~Might be older but if you haven't seen it you won't be sorry. We got this in order to refresh our memories on what the "Firm" Was about. Due to a weekly show of the "Firm" Came out on the TV. Well that was a big mistake to watch THIS(actual movie), one again. :( Ruined the weekly show of the "Firm" We have watched the one hour weekly show for 5 weeks running, thinking we can get into this.. NOPE.. This movie is MORE than an all time classic.. IT is the BEST! Needless to say we don't watch the weekly ongoing show on TV anymore... It can NOT compete with this MOVIE! LOVE IT! Glad it is in my collection of "KEEPERS".... :~)Read full review...

The Firm

Very good film gripping a all out hunt to catch a lawyer who is trying to bring down his firm.

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The Firm

It’s an interesting movie, that follows the book, but it has parts that aren’t in the book or the movie. But I enjoy it.

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About as good as these things ae now-a-days

Good film and standard theme for what's being produced these days. Still, one of the few these days I liked watching.

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