Tom Cruise is an American actor and producer who made his film debut with a minor role in the 1981 romantic drama Endless Love. His breakthrough role was in the coming-of-age comedy Risky Business (1983), which garnered Cruise his first nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. In 1986, Cruise played a Naval Aviator in the …
The IMF is shut down when it's implicated in the bombing of the Kremlin, causing Ethan Hunt and his new team to go rogue to clear their organization's name. Director: Brad Bird | Stars: Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Paula Patton. Votes: 479,258 | …
Great Legal, Crime Thriller. gavin6942 16 December 2015. A young lawyer (Tom Cruise) joins a prestigious law firm only to discover that it has a sinister dark side. Roger Ebert gave "The Firm" three stars out of four, remarking: "The movie is virtually …
Oct 17, 2020 · You know things are about to get weird in a Tom Cruise movie when he starts running through ornately decorated law firm offices. ... the Chicago mob and a firm of creepy Southern lawyers, Mitch ...
The Firm (1993 film)The FirmBased onThe Firm by John GrishamProduced byJohn Davis Sydney Pollack Scott RudinStarringTom Cruise Jeanne Tripplehorn Gene Hackman Ed Harris Holly Hunter Hal Holbrook David Strathairn Gary BuseyCinematographyJohn Seale13 more rows
'Collateral': Oscar nominated thriller starring Tom Cruise soon to be DELETED from Netflix; Know when! The thriller that marks the first villain of Tom Cruise's career, titled “Collateral”, will be deleted from Netflix. The production is saying goodbye to the schedule next Monday, August 1.Jul 27, 2021
Enter Sydney Pollack's new legal thriller, “The Firm.” Based on real-life lawyer John Grisham's best-selling novel, the Paramount movie starring Cruise (again) and Gene Hackman has already grossed $44.5 million and knocked “Jurassic Park” out of first place for the first time this summer--proving once again that ...Jul 7, 1993
When a Harvard Law School grad joins a prestigious firm, he ignores the warning of his wife, who fears the lucrative deal sounds too good to be true. Watch all you want.
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After a long day, LA taxi driver Max is about to knock off when sharp-suited Vincent offers him $600 to make five stops. Sounds good until Vincent turns out to be a merciless hitman and each one of those stops involves a hit. As the night goes on, Max starts to wonder if he'll live to see the sunrise, as the pair are hunted by the police and the FBI.Collateral / Film synopsis
Not surprisingly, The Firm won't be back on NBC (according to TVWise) because the network has opted not to renew its deal with Sony and eOne. The series could continue to be produced for other markets however and even possibly be picked up by a cable channel here in the US.
He was around 24 at the time but was playing an older character. He was born in 1962 and the movie came out in 1986.
In 1992, Tripplehorn made her film debut, in a supporting role in the erotic thriller Basic Instinct. The following year, she starred as Abby McDeere opposite Tom Cruise in The Firm and in 1995 had another lead role alongside Kevin Costner in Waterworld.
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What’s Chekhov’s rule about the gun? If there’s a rifle hanging on the wall in the first act, it must go off in the second act. It’s the same thing with Tom Cruise movies and backflips. If Tom Cruise does a happy backflip with a child in the first act, there must come a point in the second act where he sees the same child doing backflips but is now too sad to take part in the fun. That’s just storytelling 101.
The Firm is a tremendous movie about how tedious making copies can be. Like the paranoid 1970s thrillers it occasionally emulates, the movie has an uneasy and inscrutable relationship with technology. Characters are constantly worried that they are being recorded or photographed, but the good guys in the film use these methods just as much as the bad guys do, perhaps more so. At one point, Cruise records an explicit threat from Ed Harris’s FBI agent character and threatens to blackmail him with the recording. In fact, the movie’s convoluted climax is centered around mail fraud and making copies, suggesting that controlling the tools of bureaucracy may be the key to acquiring power. But, yeah, in this scene, Tom Cruise punches a copy machine because he’s trying to put his plan in motion.
Speaking of bad guys, Dean Norris has small part in the film as "the Squat Man," one of the hitmen sent to track down Cruise. He doesn’t get to do as much talking as Hank used to do on Breaking Bad, but he does get beat up and then shot at the end in a standoff, so there are some Hank-like moments here. I don’t know why Tom Cruise chooses to kick him here when he could’ve just him with his briefcase. It’s almost like they were saving the briefcase for something...
Even after taking on the FBI, the Chicago mob and a firm of creepy Southern lawyers, Mitch McDeere still wants to practice law. He still believes in what’s right. And, honestly, I understand his perseverance. Even after all the bizarre things Tom Cruise has done, I still believe in him.
The Tom Cruise that fascinated us in the early '90s is not the Tom Cruise that fascinates us today. Back then, Cruise was fresh off the critical and commercial success of A Few Good Men and married to Nicole Kidman, on his way (if not there already) to becoming the biggest movie star in the world. This was all before the Oprah incident, " Matt, you're glib ," and the Scientology exposé, Going Clear . In many ways, 1993's The Firm, a legal thriller based on the best-selling novel by John Grisham, is the most snackable Tom Cruise film of all: aggressively familiar, momentarily enjoyable, and quickly forgotten.
Cruise proved he could be a serious actor, and as a regular Joe type, in Barry Levinson's Oscar-winning dramedy. In the movie, Cruise is a selfish wheeler-dealer (obviously) who learns a thing or two about being human when he discovers he has an older, autistic-savant brother, played by Dustin Hoffman. Hoffman won a Best Actor Oscar for his performance, but it's really Cruise's reactionary performance that deserved the gold.
Cameron Crowe's sentimental, sports-flavored romance makes you instantly fall in love with Tom Cruise (just ask Hollywood, who threw him his second Oscar nomination for the role). Jerry is a Cruiseian power player taken down a peg, rebooted, and who rebuilds his life from the ground up, while showing loyalty to his lone, football-playing client (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) as well as winning the heart of his single-mom assistant (Renee Zellweger). In this movie, the A-list movie star became an everyman -- and everybody dug it. He also proved he loved black people.
J.J. Abrams will forever be regarded as the guy who breathed life back into the Star Trek and Star Wars franchises. Sadly, he dropped the ball with the third installment of the Mission: Impossible franchise. The movie not only restrains Cruise, forever cheating death as super-agent Ethan Hunt, but wastes the late, great Philip Seymour Hoffman, barely there as the movie's oily villain. An attempt to emulate the team-centric TV source material that's better served in a 4pm TNT slot than the big screen.
Cruise re-teamed with his Vanilla Sky co-star Cameron Diaz for this spy rom-com, where Cruise is a boy-scout spy out to clear his name and Diaz is a single gal who ends up tagging along. This movie was a high-flying, scatterbrained, CGI-filled cacophony that reminded everyone that the middle-aged Cruise and Diaz were still viable movie stars.
Tom Cruise starred in the first (and best) one, a paranoid thriller where Cruise, playing a young-Turk lawyer, gets stuck between a rock and a hard place when his mob-tied firm starts killing their lawyers and the Feds want him to snitch on the whole operation. He makes some incredible faces in this movie .
He plays a severely wounded, German army officer who is a part of a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler and take control of Germany. Shot like a heist movie, with all the tension of the world at stake, it's an underrated thriller worth discovering.
After a few years of being front-and-center, Cruise did a movie where he worked with legends both in front of and behind the camera. This Martin Scorsese-directed sequel to The Hustler had Paul Newman returning as "Fast Eddie" Felson, looking for a young pool player to take under his wing. Enter Cruise's pompadoured-to-hell Vincent, who treats every pool match like it's a showboating showcase.
Not literally, of course, in Tom Cruise ‘s case (obligatory height reference), but in every figurative way possible, he is an enormous presence in Hollywood, as a producer, as a celebrity and most importantly as a greenlight-giving, budget-busting, bona fide movie star. For better or worse, we’ve few enough left of those.
Cruise has one scene in this mindblowingly mawkish, and actually super skeezy teen melodrama from Franco Zeffirelli, and it’s notable for him already being shirtless ( and otherwise only wearing sports shorts) and for his speaking, or should we say squeaking, voice.
And aside from being a star, he’s actually a good actor, so if he’s given a character who’s a gruff, sarcastic but noble loner (“ Jack Reacher “) or a serious but dedicated master-of-disguise superspy (“ Mission: Impossible “), and a director engaged enough, that’s exactly what you get.
Many mafia experts have fingered Salvatore “Solly D” DeLaurentis a veteran wiseguy as the new boss of the Chicago mafia. Albert “Albie” Vena a long time mob enforcer is believed to now be the second in command behind DeLaurentis. The 79-year-old DeLaurentis was released from prison back in 2006 after serving an extended prison sentence ...
DeLaurentis has denied having any knowledge of a mafia family in The Windy City and in a recent interview he laughed off claims that he is involved in the mob or was the new boss.