Next up on my little Gene Hackman series is “The Firm,” a 1993 film adaptation of the popular John Grisham novel. A young ...

Gene Hackman, who has died at 95, was a stunner in great movies and the best thing in many bad ones — a rumpled, roiling, ...

Gene Hackman has sadly passed away and we are remembering him by looking back at 11 of his finest performances.

Gene Hackman asked for his name to be removed from the credits of a movie he starred in with Tom Cruise – a bold decision that didn't affect its success.

Aaron Davis loves John Grisham’s  “The Firm”, which he said is more than just a legal thriller. Published in 1991, “The Firm” follows the story of Mitch McDeere, a young Harvard Law graduate who ...

Unforgiven won Hackman – who initially turned down the film because of its violence – his second and final Oscar. Tom Cruise stars in this hit adaptation of the John Grishman bestseller as Mitch ...

In "The Firm," Hackman is Avery Tolar, a mentor to young attorney Mitch McDeere (Tom Cruise). McDeere, a Harvard graduate, finds himself among a group of corrupt attorneys who help their clients ...

Based on a best-selling legal thriller by John Grisham, The Firm stars Tom Cruise as Mitch McDeere, a hotshot young lawyer who is his hired by a leading law firm. Hackman plays Cruise's conniving ...

Tom Cruise stars in this hit adaptation of the John Grishman bestseller as Mitch McDeere, a Harvard Law hotshot recruited into a Memphis firm he discovers is mobbed up. Gene Hackman plays Avery ...

Tolar takes a young Mitch McDeere (Tom Cruise) under his wing while shamelessly hitting on his wife, but by the final scenes, the devil turns out to be pretty decent, in a turn that only Hackman ...