Directed by:
Sydney PollackCinematography:
John SealeCast:
Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gene Hackman, Hal Holbrook, Terry Kinney, Wilford Brimley, Ed Harris, Holly Hunter, David Strathairn, Gary Busey, Steven Hill (more)VOD (2)
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Ex-lawyer, John Grisham's first novel is brought to the screen by Sydney Pollack. Hot shot Harvard law graduate Mitch McDeere (Tom Cruise) is headhunted and enrolled by a small firm of lawyers based away from New York City, offering him a large pay package. When the FBI tell Mitch that the firm is a front for the illegal activities of the Mob, he investigates further - endangering himself and his wife (Jeanne Tripplehorn). (Paramount Pictures AU)
(more)Cast
Tom Cruise
USA
Best movies:
Rain Man (1988)
Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Jeanne Tripplehorn
USA
Best movies:
Basic Instinct (1992)
The Firm (1993)
Sliding Doors (1998)
Gene Hackman
USA
Best movies:
Mississippi Burning (1988)
Enemy of the State (1998)
Unforgiven (1992)
Hal Holbrook
USA
Best movies:
Into the Wild (2007)
All the President's Men (1976)
Magnum Force (1973)
Terry Kinney
USA
Best movies:
The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
Sleepers (1996)
The Firm (1993)
Wilford Brimley
USA
Best movies:
The Thing (1982)
Brubaker (1980)
The Natural (1984)
Ed Harris
USA
Best movies:
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
The Truman Show (1998)
Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
Holly Hunter
USA
Best movies:
The Incredibles (2004)
The Piano (1993)
The Comey Rule (2020) (series)
David Strathairn
USA
Best movies:
L.A. Confidential (1997)
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
Temple Grandin (2010) (TV movie)
Gary Busey
USA
Best movies:
Lethal Weapon (1987)
The Bear (1984)
Into the West (2005) (series)
Steven Hill
USA
Best movies:
Running on Empty (1988)
A Child Is Waiting (1963)
Yentl (1983)
Tobin Bell
USA
Best movies:
Goodfellas (1990)
Mississippi Burning (1988)
Saw (2004)
Barbara Garrick
USA
Best movies:
Pollock (2000)
The Ice Storm (1997)
The Firm (1993)
Jerry Hardin
USA
Best movies:
The X-Files – File 6: Master Plan (1996) (video compilation)
The X Files: One Son (1999) (video compilation)
Honkytonk Man (1982)
Paul Calderon
Puerto Rico
Best movies:
Michael Jackson: Video Greatest Hits - HIStory (1995) (video compilation)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
21 Grams (2003)
Jerry Weintraub
USA
Best movies:
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Ocean's 13 (2007)
The Firm (1993)
Sullivan Walker
Trinidad and Tobago
Best movies:
Crocodile Dundee (1986)
The Firm (1993)
Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005)
Karina Lombard
Best movies:
The Doors (1991)
Legends of the Fall (1994)
The Firm (1993)
Margo Martindale
USA
Best movies:
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
The Hours (2002)
Dead Man Walking (1995)
John Beal
USA
Best movies:
Double Wedding (1937)
Edge of Darkness (1943)
The Cat and the Canary (1939)