Following up on John Grisham's 1991 novel and the feature adaptation starring Tom Cruise,  The Fir m  tells the story of expert defense attorney Mitchell McDeere (now played by Josh Lucas ) -- the series takes place ten years after the novel and more

I was a huge fan of John Grisham's The Firm back when it was just a novel, and I even enjoyed the Tom Cruise movie adaptation, but when I heard that NBC was making a television series about it, I balked. I wasn't sure why the entire story needed to be ret more

The story of The Firm began in a novel 20 years ago, then was adapted into a film, and now it has arrived on NBC as a weekly series. Considered on its own merits, the TV program stands as an intr... http://www.starpulse.com/news/Brittany_Frederick/2012/01 more

Imagine a thriller about a young lawyer, near the top of his law-school class, who takes a job at a seemingly genteel firm -- for a huge salary -- only to find out that it's a front for the mob, and that every lawyer who tries to leave ends up dead.He wor more

Josh Lucas is playing a character on NBC's new series "The Firm" that another actor -- Tom Cruise -- put his stamp on in the 1993 movie based on John Grisham's best-seller. Lucas acknowledges the oddness of the situation, and while he offers his own take more

“The Firm, ” a sequel to the 1993 Tom Cruise movie and the John Grisham novel, mixes a conspiracy plot with weekly cases. http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=58479ee9e707c077e5a3ab9e9024d86a

  There may be something NBC knows that others don’t about the lasting legacy of  The Firm, because not only has the network turned the book/movie into a weekly series, it has given the show an eyebrow-raising 22 episode commitment. Is there nos more

The Firm  television series  which premiered on NBC in a two hour pilot but will take up its regular schedule on Thursdays is a remake of a 1990s movie starring Tom Cruise  which itself was adapted from a book of the same name by  more