The Firm, Book vs Film

    Oh, my, god. Talk about two entirely different stories. But before reading this I must let you know there will be spoilers, and lots of them. As I will discuss most of the differences between the book and the movie from beginning to end.
    One of the first differences we notice is how quickly the first 100 pages of the book go by in the movie. His struggles and troubled upbringing that is described in so much detail is never seen as it starts with the scene of a basketball game which is immediately followed by his interview for his firms. But as this is a movie with a limited amount of time I can see why this change had to be made. During the beginning of the movie you also aren't truly shown the poor apartment that they live in as there was no background to this either. And before you know it they are off to Memphis in a Mercedes-Benz, not a BMW.
    The next major difference we are shown is his confession to having sex with a woman in the Cayman Islands. In the movie he is threatened by Oliver Lambert and to make sure the FBI and the firm have nothing over his head he tells Abby. As you can guess, this causes quite a-bit of distrust and anger between the two as she takes the stance of no longer trusting or wanting to be with Mitch (Tom Cruise). In the book, he never tells Abby as he doesn't want to cause this distrust and there is a scare when an envelope is sent to his house containing nothing.
   Now for probably the biggest difference between the two, is the reasoning behind framing the firm. In the book its by breaking the attorney client pact that no attorney can break without ever wanting to be hired again. He does this by printing all the illegal business' earnings and showing all the other illegal operations happening throughout the Firm. In the book, we figures out that the firm is over billing all the businesses connected to firm, allowing a higher salary to be paid to everyone working. A scheme that doesn't break the attorney client pact so Mitch is able to continue working as a lawyer.    The last difference we see is where the two different Mitch's end up. In the book he ends up in the Caribbean with his wife and Ray and Abanks. In the movie ray is off with the secretary and Abanks and Abby is living with Mitch who is looking for a job.
    Overall the movie was amazing and can't be compared to severely to the book as it took two entirely different angles. I would highly recommend both the movie and the book as it will be thoroughly remembered by myself.