THE FILM:
The Firm
, Tom crisis
At 58, Tom Cruise is still running fast enough to jump from the cover of
Paris Match
to a party on Arte.
The channel puts the American actor in the spotlight by broadcasting
La Firme
(1993) and an unpublished portrait of the star.
Sydney Pollack's film is arguably not the most iconic work of Tom Pouce's career, but that doesn't stop it from being honest work by a filmmaker comfortable in all genres: western
(Jeremiah Johnson)
, comedy
(Tootsie)
, melodrama
(Out of Africa)
or paranoid thriller
(The Three Days of the Condor)
.
With
The Firm
, an adaptation of a novel by John Grisham, Pollack assumes the affiliation with
The Three Days of the Condor
, with the Mafia replacing the CIA as the Deep State and Cruise donning the costume of the man who knew too much once worn by Robert Redford.
Read also:
The Three Days of the Condor
Cruise plays Mitch McDeere, a lawyer who recently graduated from Harvard and was recruited by a Memphis firm who offered him a nice house, a shiny car and emoluments
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