The Firm

1993
R
2h 34m

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6.9/10

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A young lawyer joins a prestigious law firm only to discover that it has a sinister dark side.A young lawyer joins a prestigious law firm only to discover that it has a sinister dark side.A young lawyer joins a prestigious law firm only to discover that it has a sinister dark side.

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IMDb RATING

6.9/10

151K

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POPULARITY

2,466

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Nominated for 2 Oscars
- 3 wins & 7 nominations total

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Trivia
Holly Hunter is on screen for a total of 5 minutes and 59 seconds, one the of shortest performances ever nominated for an Oscar. She is in 20 scenes, for an average of 18 seconds per scene.

Goofs
The small seaplane used to fly back and forth to the Caymans would take more than 7 hours, with a fuel stop somewhere, to cover that distance each way. That does not fit in the time line of the plot.

Quotes
Mitch McDeere: I got mine, Wayne, you get the rest of them.
Wayne Tarrance: Get 'em with what? Overbilling, mail fraud? Oh, that's exciting.
Mitch McDeere: It's not sexy, but it's got teeth! Ten thousand dollars and five years in prison. That's ten and five for each act. Have you really looked at that? You've got every partner in the firm on overbilling. There's two hundred fifty acts of documented mail fraud there. That's racketeering! That's minimum one thousand, two hundred fifty years in prison and half a million dollars in fines. That's more than you had on Capone.

Crazy credits
Since laundering drug money is a major theme, this appears: "The producers wish to thank the Cayman Islands Government...for their cooperation in the making of this film and acknowledge that the Cayman Islands have strict antidrug and money laundering laws which are rigorously enforced."

Alternate versions
In the scene when Mitch is at the Cayman Islands, and is talking to his new client Sonny Capps about tax representation, there is a line that had a strange overdubbing. Mitch's line "You'd feel like you were fucked with a dick big enough for an elephant to feel it" was re-shot for television. In the TV version, the line was replaced with "You'd feel like you had a prostate exam with a beach umbrella to feel it."

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert: Last Action Hero/Once Upon a Forest/Jurassic Park/The Music of Chance (1993)

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Start It Up
Written by Robben Ford
Performed by Robben Ford & The Blue Line

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6/10

Intense drama film 6/10

Sydney Pollak made an interesting and remarkable movie, "The Firm" is an intense drama movie with many dramatic moments worth watching. Though it's a two and a half hour movie where it's mostly "walk and talk" scenes and can feel boring at some point. "The Firm" does deliver it's moments and advantages, such as the score composed by Dave Grusin. Tom Cruise is also an advantage cause of his acting skills and devotion to the role. Overall a nice movie with drama that gets intense at the very end. Maybe not suggested for everyone, if you don't like the kind of movies where it's mostly lawyer stuff and "walk and talk" scenes, so this movie may not be for you.