The Firm
A teenager's exhilarating initiation into an 1980s football firm curdles into a dangerous struggle to escape its violent brotherhood.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Easy to follow
- Violence
- Brutal
- gritty
- energetic
- witty
- british crime movie night
- football film marathon
What critics said
Critics broadly found the remake worthwhile for balancing warmth and humor with substantial football-hooligan violence.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Dom is recruited into Bex's football firm, whose identity is built around association football, group loyalty, and confrontations with rival firms.
Dom's fast talk earns acceptance, but his growing involvement makes leaving the firm increasingly difficult.
Bex and the other firm members use fighting and macho reputation to establish status within their subculture.
Teenager Dom moves from fascination with the firm's charismatic hierarchy toward recognition of its destructive consequences.
Films like The Firm, and why
The Football Factory
shared football hooliganism, masculine group dynamics, escalating street violence, and British crime-drama setting
I.D.
shared British hooligan culture, criminal subculture, hard-edged violence, and conflicted young protagonists
Awaydays
shared football violence, working-class masculinity, gang loyalty, and bleak crime-drama tension
Movie Details
- Director
- Nick Love
- Release Date
- 2009-09-18
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Rating
- 5.7 / 10 (88)
Cast
- Paul Anderson
- Calum MacNab
- Daniel Mays
- Doug Allen
- Joe Jackson
- Richie Campbell
- Jaf Ibrahim
- Eddie Webber
- Camille Coduri
- Billy Seymour
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Shout! Factory Amazon Channel
- Rent
- Amazon Video
- Buy
- Amazon Video
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is The Firm about?
- A teenager's exhilarating initiation into an 1980s football firm curdles into a dangerous struggle to escape its violent brotherhood.
- What is The Firm like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of The Firm as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as easy to follow.
- Is The Firm violent?
- Yes. Ember rates the violence in The Firm as brutal.
- What did critics think of The Firm?
- Critics broadly found the remake worthwhile for balancing warmth and humor with substantial football-hooligan violence.
- Which films are like The Firm?
- Films with a similar feel include The Football Factory, I.D., and Awaydays.
- How long is The Firm?
- The Firm runs 90 minutes.
- Where can I watch The Firm?
- In United States, The Firm streams on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Shout! Factory Amazon Channel.
