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John Grisham (book)David Rabe (screenplay) ...Plot Outline:
A young lawyer joins a prestigous law firm only to discover that it has a sinister dark side.Awards:
Nominated for 2 Oscars.Cast overview, first billed only) Tom Cruise ...The Nordic ManBarbara Garrick ...MPAA:
Rated R for language and some violence.Goofs:
Continuity: A computer indicates it is printing to a laser printer, but a dot matrix printer can be heard.Quotes:
Abby McDeere:
What are they going to do to you?Thank you, your vote will be counted and appear on this page within 24 hours.Sorry, there was a problem collecting your vote.Tom Cruise is very good as the hotshot lawyer, as is Jeanne Tripplehorn
who plays his unhappy wife.So much is explained
so fast at the end it's tough to comprehend it all.Dive and Fly in the same 24 Hours?Why did the Firm Kill Avery?How does it end in the book?You may report errors and omissions on this page to the IMDb database managers.Terms and Privacy Policy under which this service is provided to you.The Firm is a 1991 legal thriller and the second novel by John Grisham.Grisham's first novel, A Time to Kill, was successful but did not bring the author the attention of the general public.Plot summary
Mitchell Y.McDeere is a law student who graduated third in his class at Harvard Law School.His brother Ray is serving a prison term, and his other brother, Rusty, died in Vietnam.The firm seduces him by offering him a large salary and a large house, as well as paying off his student loans.Soon after he joins, his new colleagues help him study and pass his bar exam.Two of Mitch's colleagues die in a scuba diving accident in the Cayman Islands the week he starts at the firm; Mitch finds the deaths unsettling, but settles down, works hard, and dreams of becoming a partner after only a few years.Then, an FBI agent, Wayne Tarrance, confronts Mitch, and he learns gradually that the firm is actually part of the white collar operations of the Morolto crime family of Chicago.For years, the Moroltos have lured new lawyers from poor backgrounds into the firm with promises of wealth and security.By the time a lawyer is aware of the firm's actual operations, he cannot leave.No lawyer has escaped the firm alive, as the recent deaths of his two colleagues show.Mitch learns that his house, office and car are bugged.He and Abby are also routinely followed, making his meetings with the FBI dangerous.Pressure from both the firm and the FBI, who warns him he will regret not cooperating later on if he chooses to ignore them, force Mitch to make a decision quickly.Desperate to find a way out and stay alive in the process, Mitch makes a deal with the FBI, in which he gets two million dollars and the release of his brother, if he collects enough evidence to indict the firm.Meanwhile, the firm becomes suspicious, and with the assistance of a mole in the FBI, they discover Mitch's plan.He then proceeds to steal approximately ten million dollars from various bank accounts belonging to the firm.Mitch manages to escape to the Caribbean, while the FBI gets the evidence they need to bust the firm through a variety of documents Mitch and Abby copy from the firm.This page was last modified 04:39, 21 December 2007.All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.The Firm is a legal thriller film released in 1993, directed by Sydney Pollack, and starring Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Holly Hunter, Gary Busey, and David Strathairn.The movie is based on the novel, The Firm, by author John Grisham.The Film
The film follows the book in most respects, but changes the ending.Mitch extricates himself from his predicament.In the film, apparently in order to preserve the personal integrity of the protagonist, Mitch steals no money from the firm.Instead, he exposes a systematic overbilling scheme by the firm, thus driving a wedge between the mob and its law firm.This alters the character of the Mitch McDeere created by Grisham.Rather than capitalizing on his circumstances for personal gain, as in the book, the movie's McDeere ends up battered and bruised, but with his integrity and professional ethics intact.In the novel, McDeere perpetuates this deception right until the very end.Trivia sections are discouraged under Wikipedia guidelines.In the novel, Devasher's first name is never revealed.In the film itself, Hackman's name comes after Cruise's and before the title.The scene in which Mitch McDeere meets with the Morolto mob in the Peabody Hotel was not filmed at the Peabody.The scene was filmed in a private apartment in the Shrine Building in downtown Memphis.The Peabody was not used in the scene because the hotel has only an obstructed view of the Mississippi River, whereas the Shrine Building is closer.Benz that McDeere is given by the firm, was given to Tom Cruise after filming finished.In the film the firm gives Mitch a Mercedes, although in the novel they give him a BMW.Taglines
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