<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section needs expansion . You can help by adding to it . (July 2018) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section needs expansion . You can help by adding to it . (July 2018) </Td> </Tr> <P> Mitch McDeere (Tom Cruise) is a young man from an impoverished background, but with a promising future as a lawyer . About to graduate from Harvard Law School near the top of his class, he receives a generous job offer from Bendini, Lambert & Locke, a small boutique firm in Memphis specializing in accounting and tax law . He and his wife, Abby (Jeanne Tripplehorn), move to Memphis and Mitch sets to work studying to pass the Tennessee bar exam . Avery Tolar (Gene Hackman), one of the firm's senior partners, becomes his mentor and begins introducing Mitch to BL&L's professional culture, which demands complete loyalty, strict confidentiality, and a willingness to charge exceptional fees for their services . Seduced by the money and perks showered on him, including a house and car, he is at first totally oblivious to the more sinister side of his new employer, although Abby has her suspicions due to the Firm's desire for stability in the family . </P> <P> Mitch passes the bar exam and begins working long hours that put a strain on his marriage . Working closely with Avery, Mitch learns that most of the firm's work involves helping wealthy clients hide large amounts of money in off - shore shell corporations and other dubious tax - avoidance schemes . While on a trip to the Cayman Islands Mitch listens to Avery talk to client Sonny Caps about taxes and hears Capps state how the firm's clients in Chicago break people's legs . Later on, Mitch is seduced by a local woman and cheats on Abby . Unbeknownst to Mitch, this encounter has been arranged by the firm's sinister security chief, Bill DeVasher (Wilford Brimley), who later uses photos of Mitch's beach tryst with the woman as blackmail to keep him quiet about the firm's questionable, even illegal, activities . </P>

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