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The Firm | 1993 | R | - 5.5.6
Tom Cruise stars as a hot shot Harvard Law School graduate who unknowingly gets a job with a conservative law firm which is really working for the Mafia. Based on John Grisham's best selling book.
SEX/NUDITY 5 - Some passionate kissing, presumably leading to lovemaking. There is one sex scene where we see the participants kissing, groping, touching each other, and rolling about entwined; there's no nudity. There are a couple of barely visible, very quick glimpses of nudity though, in some grainy black and white photos. In another scene, a man unbuttons a woman's dress to reveal her back and a bra strap. There are some references to oral sex.
VIOLENCE/GORE 5 - One character is shot repeatedly: once in the ear, then the shoulder, and twice in the chest. A woman is splattered with his blood, while he manages to shoot another man in the knee, before he dies. Another man is shot through a glass door, and yet another is kicked until he's inert.
LANGUAGE 6 - The F-word is used about 23 times, and there are about 15 scatological and anatomical terms and other curses.
DISCUSSION TOPICS - The Mafia, greed, murder, blackmail, infidelity, idealism.
MESSAGE - Money can't buy happiness. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Intelligence is the best weapon.
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