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Director: Sydney Pollack
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From Time Out Film Guide
Pollack's conventional race-against-time version of John Grisham's best-seller soft pedals on the novel's conspiracy-paranoia atmosphere, makes goons of the Mob, and shows signs of having been rewritten. But it does have Cruise as the go-for-it law graduate, whose now rather faded physical charm takes nothing from his dumb-but-earnest ingénu appeal. The plot has Cruise scorn the advances of the big Eastern law firms for a small 'family'-oriented outfit in Memphis, only to find rottenness at the heart and hearth of the New South. Adorning the film, in supporting roles, are its saving graces: Hackman's moving and dissolute consigliere/father-figure; madcap investigator Busey and floozy helpmeet Hunter; and Bell's eerily engaging white-haired psychopath.Author: WH
Cast & crew
Director: Sydney Pollack
Producer: Scott Rudin, JohnDavis, Sydney Pollack
Cast: Cruise, Gene Hackman, Gary Busey, Holly Hunter, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Hal Holbrook, Ed Harris, Toibin Bell full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 154 mins
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