The Firm (1993)

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	Year of first release: 1993
	Director: Sydney Pollack (Tootsie)
	Actors: Tom Cruise (Mission: Impossible 1-5, Collateral Dammage), Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gene Hackman (Enemy of the State), Ed Harris (The Truman Show)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Thriller
	Conditions of visioning: 08.08.2020, VOD, 10" tablet screen.
Synopsis: A young lawyer (Cruise) joins a prestigious law firm only to discover that it has a sinister dark side.
Review: After recently watching The Pelican Brief, I wanted to complete watching the best four 90's cinema adaptations of John Grisham novels. No national conspiracy in this one, but another lawyer story originally taking place outside of the court. In 1993 Tom Cruise was at the top of his career, if you consider it ever went down. He just starred in Top Gun, Cocktail, Rain Man, Days of Thunder and A Few Good Men, and was about to be in Mission: Impossible, a choice which will dominate his career to this day. Just to say that the movie features a young Tom Cruise playing a young ambitious character, different from the more mature Action Hero roles we now see him in. Oh there is some action in this movie and you get to see the actor run like he does so well, but it is definitely more focused on story and characters. This plays very well with a cast that includes Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Jake Busey, Hal Holbrook and many others. The 90's natural acting is for me the strongest point of the movie. You really root for those characters and suffer to see what they go through. The plot is somehow predictable but the intrigue keeps you glued to the movie nonetheless, thanks to many twists and turns rendering the story less linear than you would expect. A movie which confirms that 90's Cinema was good at something.
Rating: 7 /10