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Synopsis: Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the more sinister side of his company. Then, two Associates are murdered. The FBI contact him, asking him for information and suddenly his life is ruined. He has a choice - work with the FBI, or stay with the Firm. Either way he will lose his life as he knows it. Mitch figures the only way out is to follow his own plan...
Director(s): Sydney Pollack
Production: Paramount Pictures
  Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
58
Rotten Tomatoes:
76%
R
Year:
1993
154 min
4,809 Views


I wanna give you everything

you gave up to marry me.

Stop it.

It`s sweet.

It`s some kind of courtship,

but I don`t need aII that.

Just bring me fIowers sometime.

What were you

working on aII night?

Just...you know,

it`s...just this stuff...

Avery`s got me doing

for the Cayman trip.

- Want to have some eggs?

- I had some eggs.

Want to have some naked?

You don`t even know what moves

me about you, do you?

Mitch, I know what you want,

but it`s not for me.

It`s not even for you,

and you know it.

It`s easy for somebody rich

to taIk about being poor

Iike it`s some bothersome fIy

you just wave away.

This isn`t about rich or poor.

It`s something that won`t

get fixed with 10 Mercedes.

Hey, that`s not fair,

Abby. That`s not fair!

This is about a mother

in a traiIer park

and a brother

you pretend you don`t have.

Have a nice trip.

Just foIIow me

and don`t over breathe.

What about Sonny Capps?

Aren`t we under pressure?

Tremendous pressure. If we

don`t dive before the bank,

we can`t do it.

You can`t dive

and then fIy within 24 hours.

How can you dive

so soon after the accident?

We don`t know what happened

to Kozinski and Hodges.

There was a pIane crash

Iast week.

We didn`t take a boat

to the Caymans, did we?

That`s ridicuIous. Let us

sit down for five minutes.

Thank you.

Son of a b*tch pays Iess than 5%

tax and wants to fire us.

The Hyatt.

This new pIan

is very aggressive,

and it defers aII your

tax IiabiIity for years.

You couId start right away.

I`m sorry, sweetheart.

I can`t taIk right now.

These taxes

are onIy deferred, right?

The future tax vaIue is Iess

than haIf their present vaIue.

- Who says?

- After the eIection...

Are you teIIing me who`s going

to be president next?

That wouId be

vaIuabIe information.

Mr ToIar has a pIan that...

that meets aII your needs,

whoever`s in the White House.

- Let him teII me.

- He`s trying to.

- Are you his Iawyer or mine?

- Neither one, sir.

- Why the f*** are you here?

- Sonny...

You`re not the firm`s

onIy concern here.

We put you into deaIs

with other cIients

who may be sensitive about

exposing their reIationships

to outside attorneys.

You hear that, counseIIor?

That`s a veiIed threat.

If you`re taIking

about our friends in Chicago,

they don`t make money

when I pay you fees. You do.

They make money

being in business with me.

As Iong as

they`re making money,

they don`t care

who does my taxes.

You don`t know me.

I`m a nice guy.

Lose me a miIIion bucks,

I won`t break your Ieg.

Sonny...

Let`s not get carried away.

What did I say?

- What did I say?

- It`s what you didn`t say.

What I didn`t say?

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David Rabe

David William Rabe (born March 10, 1940) is an American playwright and screenwriter. He won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1972 (Sticks and Bones) and also received Tony award nominations for Best Play in 1974 (In the Boom Boom Room), 1977 (Streamers) and 1985 (Hurlyburly). more…

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