The Last Star In Hollywood

The Last Star In Hollywood


16: The Firm

January 24, 2024

This week, we finally get the full, authentic Tom Cruise Run™ in Sydney Pollack’s 1993 movie The Firm. Are we all encumbered by hospitality? Did John Grisham ever write about a ghost? What’s up with Nordic assassins in the ’90s?



Content warning: sexual assault, reference to sex work, gun violence





Unanswered Questions:



  • Is Mitch McDeere typical of 1990s heroes?

  • How does the film distinguish between what is moral, what is legal, and what is necessary?

  • Does Avery know that Mitch is on to him?

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Join us next time as we take a swing into gothic excess with Neil Jordan’s 1994 adaptation of Anne Rice’s Interview With The Vampire!



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