The Firm (novel)

The Firm is a 1991 legal thriller and the second novel by John Grisham. It was his first widely recognized book, and in 1993 after it sold 1.5 million copies, was made into a film starring Tom Cruise and Gene Hackman. Grisham's first novel, A Time to Kill came into recognition afterwards due to this novel's success.

Plot summary

Mitchell Y. "Mitch" McDeere graduated from Western Kentucky University with a degree in accounting, passed his Certified Public Accountant exams on the first attempt, and graduated third in his class at Harvard Law School. Mitch is married to his high school sweetheart, Abby Sutherland, an elementary school teacher who also attended Western Kentucky University. His older brother Ray is imprisoned in Tennessee, and his other brother, Rusty, died in Vietnam.

Mitch spurns offers from law firms in New York and Chicago in favor of signing with Bendini, Lambert and Locke, a small tax law firm based in Memphis. He finds the firm's offer—a large salary, a lease on a new BMW automobile and a low interest mortgage on a house—too generous to resist. Soon after he joins, his new colleagues help him study and pass his bar exam—the first priority for new associates. Mitch is assigned to partner Avery Tolar, the firm's "bad boy," but a highly accomplished attorney.

Firm (disambiguation)

A firm is a business.

Firm or The Firm may also refer to:

Organizations

Film and television

The Firm (rock band)

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The Firm were a British rock supergroup comprising former Free and Bad Company singer Paul Rodgers, guitarist Jimmy Page formerly of The Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin, and Manfred Mann's Earth Band and Uriah Heep drummer Chris Slade and bass player Tony Franklin.

Both Page and Rodgers refused to play any material from their former bands and instead opted for a selection of Firm songs plus tracks from both their solo albums. The new songs were heavily infused with a soulful and more commercially accessible sound, courtesy of Franklin's fretless bass guitar underpinning an understated song structure. Despite refusing to play old material, the last track from The Firm, "Midnight Moonlight", was originally an unreleased Led Zeppelin song entitled "Swan Song". This caused some critics to believe that Page had begun to run out of ideas. In subsequent press interviews, Page had indicated that the band was never meant to last more than two albums. After the band split, Page and Rodgers returned to solo work while Chris Slade joined AC/DC and Franklin teamed up with guitarist John Sykes in Blue Murder.

The Firm (soundtrack)

The Firm is an album by American pianist Dave Grusin released in 1993, recorded for the GRP label. This album is a soundtrack to the Motion Picture The Firm directed by Sidney Pollack. It reached #131 on Billboard's Contemporary Jazz chart.
This soundtrack was a 1993 Academy Award nominee for Best Original Score.

Track listing

2015 release

In 2015 La-La Land Records issued a remastered and expanded edition, featuring the film score on disc one and the 1993 soundtrack album and bonus tracks on disc two. Italicised tracks on disc one are not used in the film, bold tracks contain material not used in the film.