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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama | Suspense/Thriller
Written by:
David Rabe
Robert Towne
David Rayfiel
John Grisham (book)
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
Release Date:
Theatrical: June 30, 1993
DVD: May 23, 2000
Running Time: 154 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for language and some violence
Starring Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gene Hackman, Hal Holbrook, Terry Kinney, Wilford Brimley, Ed Harris, and Holly Hunter
John Grisham’s best selling novel comes to the big screen.
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What The Critics Said
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Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
The result is a top-drawer melodrama, a polished example of commercial movie-making that manages to improve on the original while retaining its best-selling spirit. [30 Jun 1993 Pg. F1]
Variety Todd McCarthy
Rebounding from his biggest career flopflop with "Havana," Sydney Pollack has done an ultra-pro job in giving spit and polish to this star-driven, sure-fire commercial project.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Joe Brown
Cruise was born to play company man, and the role is an opportunity to sum up his old roles and transcend them with his most potently emotional work.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
But with a screenplay that developed the story more clearly, this might have been a superior movie, instead of just a good one with some fine performances.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Staff(not credited)
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.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
No one is going to confuse The Firm with art, but its high- cholesterol virtues-a story that keeps you guessing, a dozen meaty character turns-are enough to send you home sated.
Read Full Review >USA Today Mike Clark
Yet the film's most serious flaw (next to a newly concocted fizz-out ending) is that it's not sinister enough. [30 Jun 1993 Pg. 01.D]
Empire Matt Mueller
An average movie improved by Cruise's star appeal and accomplished supporting cast.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Rita Kempley
Pollack makes a solid job of it, as does Cruise. But solid isn't enough when it comes to thrillers -- or courtroom dramas, for that matter. Solid is great when it comes to office furniture.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
By the film's climax, following the plot movements has become merely complex rather than suspenseful.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Vincent Canby
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.
Read Full Review >The New Yorker Michael Sragow
The supporting cast provides centripetal force; too bad the center cannot hold.
Read Full Review >Time Richard Corliss
Tom Cruise heads a tony cast in a best-seller movie that is firm at the start and infirm by the end.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
By then, the lofty ambitions can't disguise the sad reality - it's long, it's cluttered, and it's trite.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
Very little of what made the written version so enjoyable has been successfully translated to the screen, and what we're left with instead is an overly-long (two hours and thirty-four minutes, to be exact), pedantic thriller.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Director Sydney Pollack zapped out a taut thriller in "Three Days of the Condor". But The Firm is mostly flab, in the manner of Pollack's elephantine Havana.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.0 (out of 10) based on 1 User Votes
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