TY - ADVS AU - Rudin,Scott AU - Davis,John AU - Pollack,Sydney ED - Paramount Pictures TI - The firm SN - 0792164962 PY - 2000/// CY - Hollywood, California PB - Paramount Pictures KW - Law firms KW - United States KW - Drama KW - Lawyers KW - Corruption investigation N1 - Originally released as a motion picture in 1993; Based on the book by John Grisham; Editor, William Steinkamp and Frederic Steinkamp ; production designed, Richard Macdonald ; director of photography, John Seale ; screenplay by, David Rabe, Robert Towne and David Rayfiel; Cast : Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Ed Harris, holly Hunter, Hal Holbrook, David Strathairn N2 - Cruise plays Mitch McDeere, a brilliant and ambitious Harvard Law grad. Driven by a fierce desire to bury his working-class past, Mitch joins a small, properous Memphis firm that affords Mitch and hi swife (Jeanne Tripplehorn) an affluent lifestyle beyond their wildest dreams. But when FBI agents confront him with evidence of corruption and murder within the firm, Mitch sets out to find the truth in deadly crossfire between the FBI, the Mob, and a force that will stop at nothing to protect its interests-The Firm ER -