Monday, May 3, 2010

The Firm

A young brash lawyer Mitch McDeere is a law student at a law school in Massachusetts and he gets recruited by a law firm in Memphis that has a very big secret and is being investigated by the FBI for over billing employers and the FBI recruits Mitch to get some evidence for them which is against client lawyer privilege but Mitch firgues
out the firm has his house bugged and knows everywhere he is and doing he gets his brother out of prison in exchange for files from the FBI. Mitch sleeps with a girl who is hired from the firm in the Cayman Islands to blackmail him against his wife who he tells about it. then allot happens and his wife goes to the Cayman's to help Mitch and they get some files down there and it happens where he keeps his license and the firm is brought down.The movie has long shots of conversations and has allot of close shots of emotion.
Director: Sydney Pollock
Writer: John Grisham ( Book)
David Rabe
Release Date June 30th 1993 USA
Genre: Thriller Drama
Academy Awards, USA
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
1994 Nominated Oscar Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Holly Hunter

Best Music, Original Score
Dave Grusin

BAFTA Awards
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
1994 Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Holly Hunter

BMI Film & TV Awards
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
1994 Won BMI Film Music Award
Dave Grusin

Grammy Awards
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
1994 Nominated Grammy Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television
Dave Grusin

MTV Movie Awards
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
1994 Nominated MTV Movie Award Best Male Performance
Tom Cruise

Most Desirable Male
Tom Cruise

People's Choice Awards, USA
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
1994 Won People's Choice Award Favorite Dramatic Motion Picture


Cast

(Cast overview, first billed only)

Tom Cruise ... Mitch McDeere

Jeanne Tripplehorn ... Abby McDeere

Gene Hackman ... Avery Tolar

Hal Holbrook ... Oliver Lambert

Terry Kinney ... Lamar Quinn
Wilford Brimley ... William Devasher

Ed Harris ... Wayne Tarrance

Holly Hunter ... Tammy Hemphill

David Strathairn ... Ray McDeere

Gary Busey ... Eddie Lomax
Steven Hill ... F. Denton Voyles

Tobin Bell ... The Nordic Man

Barbara Garrick ... Kay Quinn
Jerry Hardin ... Royce McKnight
Paul Calderon ... Thomas Richie

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