Saturday 2 April 2016

The Firm (1993)

The Firm is a great Star Wars film.  It stars Tom Cruise as Biggs Darklighter McDeere, a hot shot young moisture farmer fresh out of law school in Boston who dreams of someday making it big and joining struggle of good against evil by becoming a lawyer.  His wish is granted by a tight-knit family law firm that appears perfect, giving him a new house, a new Mercedes and a salary.  His wife is played by Jeanne Tripplehorn, who is pretty hot.  They go to Memphis where his new job is and they settle in.  Gene Hackman plays his wise old mentor, who drinks a lot.  Soon he finds out that everyone in the company is a crook working for a crime family in Chicago, but he can't leave because they'll track him down and kill him, and they have his house and phones bugged.  He consults his brother in jail, played by the smooth guy from LA Confidential, and he leads him to a smuggler played by Gary Busey who gives him passage to the inner core of the company, along with Holly Hunter.  The FBI soon track him down and try to make him work for them, getting evidence to put the evil firm behind firm, rigid bars of metal.  Both the FBI and the firm have tractor beams on him so he can't escape, so he uses the force and lets go, getting leverage over both sides so he can get his life back and blow the firm in the exhaust port.  He succeeds and leaves to go back to Boston to teach more Jedi how to do it.

                                          Tom Cruise using the force in "The Firm."

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