The Firm (1993)

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Wikidata Q821692, film, IMDb tt0106918, TMDB 37233: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Gene Hackman as actor (The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame); 2 more episodes agree.

What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.

Who talked about it

Blank Check — Patreon

The Big Picture

The Rewatchables

Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

The Verdict: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): The Verdict ⇒ The Firm (the host's read). The Verdict is foundational for the Grisham underdog stories.
    “foundational for a lot of the Grisham stories”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:08:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

A Few Good Men: 2 lines verdict ×1 career ×1

  1. verdict (ranking): A Few Good Men → The Firm. The hosts treat them as the two lawyer movies and only one can survive the final Hall of Fame cut; A Few Good Men wins.
    “I didn't realize that this was a one lawyer only hall of fame.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:05:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)

Runaway Jury: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Runaway Jury → The Firm. Runaway Jury is the end of the Grisham thriller run that began with The Firm and The Pelican Brief.
    “That like the Grisham run is, the firm, the Pelican brief, the client, a time to kill.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 1:49:34 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)

The Verdict: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): The Verdict → The Firm. The Verdict is foundational for the Grisham underdog stories.
    “foundational for a lot of the Grisham stories”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:08:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Tom Cruise: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Tom Cruise → The Firm. Cruise's 90s run (The Firm, A Few Good Men) is about the innocent learning the world is not what it seems.
    “The guy learning the world, it's not quite what it appears to be.”
    The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:31:49 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Wilford Brimley: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Wilford Brimley → The Firm. Brimley's Apex Mountain is raised as The Firm.
    “What about the firm?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:16:13 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (2)

  1. career (career): Wilford Brimley → The Firm. Brimley's Apex Mountain is raised as The Firm.
    “What about the firm?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:16:13 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): A Few Good Men → The Firm. Tom Cruise's Firm period was important to Amanda; she ranks it the best Grisham movie.
    “the firm is like the quote best movie”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:31:01 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55 sure it was them)

lineage (3)

  1. lineage (lineage): Tom Cruise → The Firm. Cruise's 90s run (The Firm, A Few Good Men) is about the innocent learning the world is not what it seems.
    “The guy learning the world, it's not quite what it appears to be.”
    The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:31:49 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): The Verdict → The Firm. The Verdict is foundational for the Grisham underdog stories.
    “foundational for a lot of the Grisham stories”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:08:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (lineage): Runaway Jury → The Firm. Runaway Jury is the end of the Grisham thriller run that began with The Firm and The Pelican Brief.
    “That like the Grisham run is, the firm, the Pelican brief, the client, a time to kill.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 1:49:34 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)

verdict (1)

  1. verdict (ranking): A Few Good Men → The Firm. The hosts treat them as the two lawyer movies and only one can survive the final Hall of Fame cut; A Few Good Men wins.
    “I didn't realize that this was a one lawyer only hall of fame.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:05:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about The Firm: Chris loves The Firm for Hackman, Wilford Brimley and Holly Hunter, a Hollywood movie aspiring to nothing but entertainment; Sean calls his Wilford imitation the best Rewatchables bit.
    “That might be the best episode of the rewatchables ever, in my opinion.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:04:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

As said on the shows, not checked against the real credits.