Sydney Pollack directs Tom Cruise in this fast-paced legal thriller based on John Grisham's best-selling novel. Lured by extraordinary financial perks, Mitch McDeere, a young and hungry Harvard Law student, turns down offers at the top law firms to take a position at a small but wealthy Memphis firm. Mitch, a boy from the wrong side of the tracks fueled by ambition and greed, ignores his wife Abby's initial misgivings about the suspiciously paternalistic practices of his new employers. It's only when two of his fellow lawyers die in a mysterious accident that Mitch begins to share her apprehensions. He then launches an investigation into the true nature of the firm and discovers that it is a front for a complex and sinister web of organized crime, one from which no lawyer has managed to escape alive. Solid storytelling and fine performances bring this seemingly improbable situation straight into reality.

Theatrical release: June 30, 1993.

Filmed on location in Memphis, Tennessee; Grand Cayman Islands; Washington, DC; and Boston, Massachusetts.

DVD Features:

Region 1
Keep Case - Sensormatic
Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
Letterbox - 1.85
Audio:
Dolby Digital Surround 2.0 - English
Dolby Digital Surround 2.0 - French
Dolby Digital Surround 5.1 - English
Additional Release Material:
Trailers: Theatrical Trailer
Interactive Features:
Interactive Menus
Scene Selection

Tom Cruise: American Actor, RISKY BUSINESS, EYES WIDE SHUT
Jeanne Tripplehorn: American Actress
Ed Harris: American Actor/Director
Holly Hunter: American Actress, RAISING ARIZONA (1987)
David Strathairn: American stage/film actor, GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK
Gary Busey: American Actor
Hal Holbrook: American actor, MARK TWAIN TONIGHT/ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN
Gene Hackman: Oscar-winning actor, THE FRENCH CONNECTION
Wilford Brimley: American supporting actor
Paul Sorvino: American character actor, GOODFELLAS (1990)

Sydney Pollack: American Director, producer, actor

"...A very smooth adaptation of John Grisham's giant bestseller....[The] supporting cast is stellar indeed..."
"...It's a pleasure to watch these flamboyant performers chew on their lines..."
"...Physically elaborate, the cinematic equivalent of the book's relentlessly descriptive prose..."
"...The movie is virtually an anthology of good small character performances....A late, tricky scene between Hackman and Tripplehorn is like a master class in acting..."