The Firm
The movie follows Mitch, a Harvard law school grad who happily signs on with a top Memphis law firm, only to discover that it has a sinister dark side. Very soon Mitch becomes worried about 'The Firm's' clients, and is approached by the FBI who are investigating their Mafia connections.
28 November 1950, Tenafly, New Jersey, USA
26 September 1937, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
21 November 1956, Santa Monica, California, USA
26 January 1949, San Francisco, California, USA
25 November 1947, Paris, France
8 May 1953, Lebanon, Tennessee, USA
13 August 1909, Joplin, Missouri, USA
28 August 1953, Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
30 January 1930, San Bernardino, California, USA
May 24, 2017
...a completely passable adaptation that never quite becomes the classic legal thriller it wants to be.
December 18, 2010
Too-long Grisham thriller is full of adult themes.
May 26, 2008
A smooth adaptation of John Grisham's giant bestseller that is destined to be one of the summer's strong audience pleasers.
May 26, 2008
The first in a long series of unsatisfying Grisham adaptations.
May 20, 2003
The movie is extremely long (two hours and 34 minutes) and so slow that by the end you feel as if you've been standing up even if you've been sitting down.
May 26, 2008
The Firm amusingly satirizes the New Traditionalist aspirations of today's young urban elite -- not so much the lifestyle itself as the illusion of utter security it represents.
May 12, 2001
The book moved at turbo speed. At two and a half hours, the movie crawls.
January 26, 2006
Adorning the film, in supporting roles, are its saving graces.
May 19, 2011
...pits Cruise against the world, with only his character's wit.
July 15, 2006
This legal thriller is smartly directed and well scripted (by some of Hollywood's top writers), but, alas, Tom Cruise is Tom Cruise, playing yet another variation of his screen image.
May 26, 2008
Tom Cruise heads a tony cast in a best-seller movie that is firm at the start and infirm by the end.
May 26, 2008
This is a professional machine of a movie that compresses huge amounts of information into its two and a half hours of screen time. But it's so weighed down by detail, it fails to generate any real suspense.
