Word: mitch
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Mitch Frank...
...With reporting by Fred Barnes/ Little Rock, Paul Cuadros/Raleigh, Mitch Frank/ New York, Hilary Hylton/Austin, Jeff Ressner/Los Angeles and Maggie Sieger/Chicago
...movie was directed by Oscar-winning Hollywood veteran Sydney Pollack (Tootsie, Out of Africa); it grossed over $250 million worldwide and garnered two Oscar nominations and favorable reviews. It contorts to make the McDeeres’ relationship at least somewhat balanced. Mitch (Tom Cruise) confesses to Abby (Jeanne Tripplehorn) about his Cayman Islands tryst. She achieves some measure of movie-style retribution by not telling her hubby whether or not she slept with his boss (Gene Hackman) while she stole files from him. Of course, she didn’t—equality has its limits and no woman will...
...book’s ending is jarringly shoddy in its treatment of Abby. Rather than enter the witness protection program, Mitch steals millions from the Mafia (the eponymous firm’s true owners) and makes plans to spend the rest of his life sailing the Caribbean with Abby and his brother Ray. Abby has left her career, her family and even her dog behind her. Mitch, on the other hand, has brought his brother—the only relative he speaks to—with him and he has already abandoned his career. Abby’s fear that...
Abby makes sacrifices, Mitch doesn’t, and that’s the way things should be: “I’ll be okay Mitch,” Abby says, kissing him on the cheek. “As long as we’re together, I can handle anything.” The film radically changes the ending so that Mitch and Abby merely have to leave town and Mitch has to look for a more modest law job. It’s not the happy-for-Mitch, crappy-for-Abby conclusion that Grisham seems...