THE FIRM (1993) ***** 'The Firm' proves primarily that Corporate hot shots don't always have everything going for them...at least not for Tom Cruise, a fresh lawyer out of Harvard University esteemed with honors of great competency and greater potential, who's life comes crashing down at the least expected time. Hired by a Memphis firm with an opportunity to live a life in luxury, Cruise quite soon discovers improper conduct between his law firm and the Mob involving salary exploits. Now the FBI wants to recruit him to sell out the company, but his superiors are of even greater threat to him if truth of all he knows seeps out. In the climactic point our hero takes on his own plan of justice to save himself from hell's door and set things straight. Superb score (Dave Gruslin) and story work (adaptation of John Grisham's novel), as well as a first-rate supporting cast of Gene Hackman, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Ed Harris, Holly Hunter, and Wilford Brimley. Simply put a must-see. Rated R.
Review of The Firm
