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List Price: $12.99 Our Price: $11.99 You Save: $1 Features • Anamorphic • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 30 June, 1993 DVD Release : 23 May, 2000 |
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The Firm description By far the best adaptation of a John Grisham bestseller, this smart, fast-paced 1993 film--directed by Sydney Pollack (Out of Africa)--offers up the dilemma of a young lawyer whose life is turned upside down when he takes a job at a Southern law firm owned by the mob. Mitch McDeere (Tom Cruise), having just graduated from Harvard Law, is besiege ... review details |
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| This is a mediocre film mainly of interest as a stepping stone in Cruise's career. While the screenplay is not bad, Pollack never manages to convince me about evilness of "The Firm" - a law firm serving mafiosi from Chicago. The Firm characters never come alive either as lawyers or as bad guys; their sinister-edness has a cartoonish character rather an an aura of real menace.
By far the best part here was played by Hackman. Great acting - subtle, forceful and nuanced. Cruise's acting shows the beginnings of the (rather predictable) stereotype that we get to expect afterwards: the (fake) sensitive macho, the signature running with rigid and puffed-out torso and, especially, the inability to feel. When an actor has to simulate feeling rather than actually acting THROUGH feeling, the viewer subconsciously gets funnies in the stomach, like watching a conman trying to persuade others of his honesty. Cruise emotes well but can't convincingly express affection or even sexual interest. he is good at expressing hate, as shown in Magnolia. The actors, screenplay and the director never achieve a rapport required to convince the viewer - and themselves! - that they have a quality product. Pollack is not the Top Gun kind of guy and he never will be. Oh, well. |
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