All of John Grisham's novels have their own built in audience, The Firm is no exception. Even players like Gary Busey, Hal Holbrook, Gene Hackman, take essentially supporting roles because this film was a guaranteed blockbuster. Sydney Pollak gave him one stylish cast in support and everyone of them delivers. How Tom Cruise gets out of this rock and a hard place situation is the plot of The Firm. They're not above a little blackmail and entrapment and they've got a security man in Wilford Brimley who's real good at it. And The Firm isn't a gang of boy scouts either. That would result in disbarment for violating lawyer/client privilege. Now the FBI in the persons of fatherly Steven Hill and hard-nosed Ed Harris are squeezing Cruise to infiltrate and get incriminating information. This Firm's main client is a Chicago crime family and they launder the mob's money. Sounds like he's on his way to the top with wife Jeanne Tripplehorn. Tom Cruise, the All American kid from the trailer park who worked his way through Harvard Law School, just got the dream job with a prestigious white shoe law firm in Memphis, Tennessee.
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