A young lawyer joins a prestigious law firm only to discover that it has a sinister dark side.A young lawyer joins a prestigious law firm only to discover that it has a sinister dark side.A young lawyer joins a prestigious law firm only to discover that it has a sinister dark side.
- Nominated for 2 Oscars
- 3 wins & 7 nominations total
Storyline
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- TriviaHolly Hunter is on screen for a total of 5 minutes and 59 seconds, one the of shortest performances ever nominated for an Oscar. She is in 20 scenes, for an average of 18 seconds per scene.
- GoofsThe small seaplane used to fly back and forth to the Caymans would take more than 7 hours, with a fuel stop somewhere, to cover that distance each way. That does not fit in the time line of the plot.
- Quotes
Mitch McDeere: I got mine, Wayne, you get the rest of them.
Wayne Tarrance: Get 'em with what? Overbilling, mail fraud? Oh, that's exciting.
Mitch McDeere: It's not sexy, but it's got teeth! Ten thousand dollars and five years in prison. That's ten and five for each act. Have you really looked at that? You've got every partner in the firm on overbilling. There's two hundred fifty acts of documented mail fraud there. That's racketeering! That's minimum one thousand, two hundred fifty years in prison and half a million dollars in fines. That's more than you had on Capone.
- Crazy creditsSince laundering drug money is a major theme, this appears: "The producers wish to thank the Cayman Islands Government...for their cooperation in the making of this film and acknowledge that the Cayman Islands have strict antidrug and money laundering laws which are rigorously enforced."
- Alternate versionsIn the scene when Mitch is at the Cayman Islands, and is talking to his new client Sonny Capps about tax representation, there is a line that had a strange overdubbing. Mitch's line "You'd feel like you were fucked with a dick big enough for an elephant to feel it" was re-shot for television. In the TV version, the line was replaced with "You'd feel like you had a prostate exam with a beach umbrella to feel it."
Even get some action in the film toward the end. If you feel like an exciting film with all your traditional 90 vibe in style, talk and play - make sure to watch the Firm. Great job everyone!
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Details
Box office
- Budget
- $42,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $158,348,367
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $25,400,000
- Jul 4, 1993
- Gross worldwide
- $270,248,367
- Runtime2 hours 34 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1