The Firm / Paramount Pictures presents a John Davis/Scott Rudin/Mirage production ; a film by Sidney Pollack ; screenplay by David Rabe and Robert Towne & David Rayfiel ; produced by Scott Rudin and John Davis ; produced and directed by Sydney Pollack.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 32523 | ParamountLanguage: English, French Original language: English Subtitle language: English Series: Widescreen DVD collectionPublication details: [Hollywood, Calif.] : Paramount, ©2000.Description: 1 videodisc (154 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 0792164962
- 9780792164968
- 0792164954
- 9780792164951
- Firm (Motion picture)
- Music composer/performer, Dave Grusin ; editors, William Steinkamp, Fredric Steinkamp ; production designer, Richard MacDonald ; director of photography, John Seale ; executive producers, Michael Hausman, Lindsay Doran.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In this drama, based on the best-selling novel by John Grisham, Mitch McDeer (Tom Cruise) is a young man from a poor Southern family who has struggled through Harvard Law School to graduate fifth in his class. Mitch is entertaining offers from major firms in New York and Chicago, but when Memphis-based Bendini, Lambert, & Locke offer him a 20 percent higher salary than the best offer he's received, in addition to an enticing variety of perks and fringe benefits, he decides to sign on and remain in the South. Mitch's wife, Abby (Jeanne Tripplehorn), warns him that the deal sounds almost too good to be true, but it's not until after several weeks of working with Avery Tolar (Gene Hackman) that Mitch discovers that the vast majority of BL&L's business is tied to organized crime, with crime boss Joey Morolto (Paul Sorvino) using the firm to launder Mafia money. FBI agents Wayne Tarrance (Ed Harris) and F. Denton Voyles (Steven Hill) try to blackmail Mitch into helping them make a case against the firm, while BL&L's "security director" William Devasher (Wilford Brimley) is blackmailing him to do as he's told after Mitch foolishly allows himself to be seduced by a prostitute hired by the firm. The Firm was adapted for the screen by acclaimed playwright David Rabe and features performances by Hal Holbrook, Holly Hunter, and Gary Busey. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
DVD, region 1, NTSC, widescreen; Dolby digital 5.1, Dolby surround.
In English or dubbed French; optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing; closed-captioned.
Tom Cruise, Gene Hackman, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Ed Harris, Holly Hunter, Wilford Brimley, Hal Holbrook, David Strathairn.
Music composer/performer, Dave Grusin ; editors, William Steinkamp, Fredric Steinkamp ; production designer, Richard MacDonald ; director of photography, John Seale ; executive producers, Michael Hausman, Lindsay Doran.
Based on the book by John Grisham.
Originally released as motion picture in 1993.
A brilliant and ambitious Harvard Law grad joins a small, prosperous law firm in Memphis, and is soon confronted by FBI agents with evidence of corruption and murder within the firm.
MPAA rating: R; for language and some violence.
Special features: 2 theatrical trailers.