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The Firm

1993 film
The Firm is a 1993 American legal thriller film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Holly Hunter, Hal Holbrook, and David Strathairn

Release date : june 30, 1993
Director : Sydeny Pollack.
Story by : John Grisham
Screen play : john Grisham, Robert towne, David Rabe, David Ravfiel.
Awards: people choice award for favorite drama movie

The Firm follows the main character, Mitch McDeere, as he graduates from Harvard Law School with honors, interviews for an associate position at various prestigious law firms, and During his first few months as a lawyer. Throughout the movie, Mitch is faced with many personal ethical issues, such as balancing work-life demands and drinking on the job, as well as business ethical issues. Each decision Mitch makes, is evaluated and acted upon from a different stage of moral development, according to Kohlberg’s theory and other ethical frameworks.
The Firm portrayed the business environment in a very negative light. The first few scenes show the different law firms offering more money than other firms to entice Mitch to accept their offer of employment. Each deal included more and more benefits, perquisites, and additional money and bonuses. This cast the business environment as a cut-throat competitive and money driven realm of society. Later in the film, after Mitch accepted an associate lawyerposition with Bendini, Lambert, & Locke (the law firm), the business environment is further portrayed as corrupt and deceitful. As part of Mitch’s employment offer, he is given a fullyfurnished home. However, the firm wire-tapped and bugged the home to monitor Mitch’s personal life, to ensure he and his wife,

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