They were totally unqualified to try the case of a lifetime... but every underdog has his day.
Rainmaker, The (1997)
Crime
| Drama
| Thriller
DVD, 135 minutes
Country:
USA
Director:
Francis Ford Coppola
Writer:
John Grisham
| Francis Ford Coppola
| Michael Herr
Producer:
Michael Douglas
| Fred Fuchs
| Georgia Kacandes
| Gary Marcus
| Steven Reuther
Music:
Elmer Bernstein
Plot outline
An idealistic young lawyer and his cynical partner take on a powerful law firm representing a corrupt insurance company.
Cast
- Matt Damon
- Danny DeVito
- Claire Danes
- Jon Voight
- Mary Kay Place
- Dean Stockwell
- Teresa Wright
- Virginia Madsen
- Mickey Rourke
- Andrew Shue
- Red West
- Johnny Whitworth
- Wayne Emmons
- Adrian Roberts
- Roy Scheider
- Randy Travis
- Michael Girardin
- Randall King
- Justin Ashforth
- Michael Keys Hall
- James Cunningham
- Frank Clem
- Alan Woolf
- Sonny Shroyer
- Pamela Tice Chapman
- Trula M. Marcus
- Tony Dingman
- Daniel O'Callaghan
- Tom Kagy
- John Yancey
- Verda Davenport
- Chris Gray
- Johnetta Shearer
- Tammy Wendel
- Nate Bynum
- John Gray
- Sherry Sanford
- Billy Ray Reynolds
- Mary Lester
- Deborah Frazier
- Vernon Newman
- Lynn Carthane
- Rodney Peck
- Bill Lunn
- Terrance Stewart
- Bridget Brunner
- Mike Cody
- Donald Polden
- Eloise Dukes
- Katherine Morrow
- Alex Harvey
- Melissa Hurst
- Anasa Briggs-Graves
- Ronnie Dee Blaire
- Alexis Brigham
- Robyn Day
- Danny Glover
- Marshall Taylor
Plots
- Rudy Baylor is a jobless young attorney. However, he is also the only hope of an elderly couple whose insurance company will not pay for an operation that could save their son's life. In this judicial drama, Rudy learns to hate corporate America as he falls in love with a battered young married woman. Will he be up to the task? Written by Steve Richer
- Rudy Baylor's a young lawyer who goes to work for an ambulance chaser. He brings with him a case wherein a woman wants to sue an insurance company, that stalled on paying her son's medical bills, eventually he got too ill that he's now terminal. When his boss is investigated for his unethical practices, Deck Schifflet, another man who works at the law office, suggests that he and Rudy open their own office which they do. Deck has gone to law school but for some reason has not yet passed the bar. And now the two of them, try to handle the case themselves but they are up against Leo Drummond, a powerful and wily lawyer. And Rudy would like to do things honestly. Written by rcs0411@yahoo.com
- A young Tennessee lawyer fresh out of law school takes the case of his life in this amazing courtroom drama. When a big insurance company tries to keep from having to pay for the care that a young man diagnosed with leukemia needs, the family decides to hire a lawyer. Rudy (Damon) takes on this client in his first case after the head of his law office has to hide because he's wanted by the feds. He must overcome many obstacles inside and outside the courtroom as he attempts to find out what it means to be a lawyer and how far you have to go before you become a sell-out. Written by thexotherxchris