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Features: DVD, Widescreen, Dolby, Digital Audio, English, Dolby Digital (5.1), Dolby Surround Sound
Three-time Oscar® nominee Tom Cruise delivers the most electrifying performance of his career in this riveting film based on the international best-seller. Cruise plays Mitch McDeere, a brilliant and ambitious Harvard Law grad. Driven by a 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. Directed by Oscar-winner Sydney Pollack and starring Oscar-winner Gene Hackman plus a magnificent supporting cast, THE FIRM makes its case as the must-see movie of the year.
"A real thriller! Great cast, great story, great suspense!" Joel Siegel, Good Morning America
"Cruise was born to play company man..." Joe Brown, Washington Post
Editor's Note
Sydney Pollack directs Tom Cruise in this fast-paced legal thriller based on John Grisham's best-selling novel. Lured by extraordinary financial perks, Mitch McDeere, 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.
| Features | Scene Access | | Theatrical Trailer | | English Dolby Digital Surround | | French Dolby Digital Surround | | Interactive Menus | | Widescreen Version | | English 5.1 Surround Dolby Digital |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Paramount |
| Release Date: 5/17/2005 |
| Running Time: 154 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1993 | | Catalog ID: 325234 | | UPC: 00097363252344 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
People's Choice Awards (1994) |  | Winner, Favorite Dramatic Motion Picture | |
Oscar (1994) | | | Dave Grusin, Nominee, Best Music, Original Score | | | Holly Hunter, Nominee, Best Supporting Actress | |
MTV Award (1994) | | | Tom Cruise, Nominee, Best Male Performance | | | Tom Cruise, Nominee, Most Desirable Male | |
British Academy Awards (1994) | | | Holly Hunter, Nominee, Best Actress Supporting |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"...Physically elaborate, the cinematic equivalent of the book's relentlessly descriptive prose..." 06/30/1993 p.C15Variety
"...A very smooth adaptation of John Grisham's giant bestseller....[The] supporting cast is stellar indeed..." 07/12/1993 Entertainment Weekly
"...It's a pleasure to watch these flamboyant performers chew on their lines..." 07/09/1993 p.28-9 Chicago Sun-Times
"...The movie is virtually an anthology of good small character performances....A late, tricky scene between Hackman and Tripplehorn is like a master class in acting..." 06/30/1993 p.41 |
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