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...Marcus and then getting whacked with the bill: here is the middle class's Faustian bargain of big money and sapping compromise, of anxious wives and Stepford lives. How handsome the paneling on a lawyer's desk -- as handsome as the paneling on a lawyer's casket. At Bendini, Lambert & Locke, death is the penalty for abusing the rule of confidentiality. Harvard Law whiz Mitch McDeere (Tom Cruise) will break that rule and many others honored by his firm, the Mob, the FBI and his resilient wife Abby (Jeanne Tripplehorn...
...plot centers on Mitch McDeere, a young Harvard Law graduate (Tom Cruise) who goes to work for the small but rich Memphis law firm of Bendini, Lambert and Locke, taking a brilliant legal mind, his shaggy dog and his wife (Jeanne Tripplehorn) along with...
...Bendini, Lambert and Locke pay off McDeere's student loans, buy him a house and lease him a car. It's the perfect job--until Mitch begins to wonder why no lawyer has ever left the firm alive, and why four lawyers have died mysteriously in the past few years. His investigation soon threatens his integrity as a lawyer and eventually, his life...
...play of greed, corruption, sales, dehumanization, money, and crime. (Sound familiar? It is.) It references the fall of Drexel Burnham Lambert, and Christian Collins's Shelly Levene seems inspired by the Michael Milken saga. Is this yet another latecomer in the formerly fashionable critique of the "excesses of the 1980s," or is it somehow perversely nostalgic for the Glitter Decade? Either way, Glengarry Glen Ross seems unnecessarily dated, if not outright superfluous...
...care. Most of the 290,000 jobs created since the recession officially ended in March 1991 have sprung up in the health-care industry, which employs 9 million Americans. Since the election, Bristol-Myers has announced that it is cutting 2,000 of its 53,000 jobs, and Warner-Lambert expects to eliminate 2,700 of its 35,000 positions. Insurance companies, a principal target of Clinton's reform philosophy, are bracing for the worst. Aetna and Travelers have both announced plans for major layoffs...