The Firm (1993)
Directed by Sydney Pollack
Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the more sinister side of his company. Then, two Associates are murdered. The FBI contact him, asking him for information and suddenly his life is ruined. He has a choice - work with the FBI, or stay with the Firm. Either way he will lose his life as he knows it. Mitch figures the only way out is to follow his own plan...
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One of my favorite examples of that basic plotline is "The Firm," where Tom Cruise plays a law school graduate who's wooed by an old, established firm and moves down south with his wife (Jeanne Tripplehorn) where they eventually discover things aren't hunky dory.
Ryan Gosling plays hotshot assistant district attorney Willy Beachum, whose poker buddies must be Tom Cruise in "The Firm" and Keanu Reeves in "The Devil's Advocate."
The ending to the movie version of The Firm is better and smarter than the original finale.
In 1993, director Sydney Pollack made the dire mistake of adapting John Grisham's potboiler The Firm as a shadowy and serious melodrama, and Ron Howard has duplicated that error here: Whereas Brown's novel has been described as dumb fun, the film is no fun at all.