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...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...
This is not to say the movie is without its faults. Mitch's reason for his devotion to his work is never fully backed up. Although he's supposed to be desperate to escape a poor background, it doesn't quite ring true. A shot of his mother in a trailer park or his father in the mines might have done the trick, but Cruise looks too much the part of the well-off preppy young lawyer for it to come through...
...native of Memphis who's attending Harvard, I sometimes divide my life into pre-Firm and after-Firm. Pre-Firm, whenever I mentioned my roots, I'd usually get in response, "Oh, that's where Elvis lived, right?" After-Firm, I am told instead, "Oh, the Mitch McDeere town!" Often, people are eager to hear a few more details about the city on which their favorite legal thriller was based...
...Island--A theme park right off the banks of the Mississippi which has been plagued with financial problems since its inception more than a decade ago. Mud Island includes the museum Mitch runs through near the end of the movie, as well as the "Riverwalk," a concrete scale model of the Mississippi River that kids love to wade through on hot summer days. Mud Island is also the site of several outdoor concerts each year. The monorail which Mitch rides on is well-known in the Bluff City--in a town without subways, cars hanging from...
East Memphis--Where Mitch and Abby live. Take the Chickasaw Gardens definition, enlarge the area in question, add several more gates and more money and you've got the picture. But it's better than Germantown, where speeding, shabbiness and poor exterior decorating are reported to be punishable by death...