The Firm
“Power can be murder to resist.”
1993 · 2 h 34 min
Sydney PollackCast
Tom Cruise 
Jeanne Tripplehorn 
Gene Hackman 
Hal Holbrook 
Terry Kinney 
Wilford Brimley
Credits
Written by: 
John Grisham
Plot
A young lawyer joins a law firm in Memphis and discovers it is controlled by the mob.
Sinekatalog’s take
Sydney Pollack's John Grisham adaptation is a smooth, tense legal thriller with Tom Cruise running hard.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 6.9 / 10 (165,291 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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