John Grisham's The Rainmaker (Special Collector's Edition)
by Francis Ford Coppola
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Actor: Claire Danes, Danny DeVito, Jon Voight, Mary Kay Place, Matt DamonDirector: Francis Ford Coppola
Brand: PARAMOUNT HOME VIDEO
Writer: Francis Ford Coppola
Producer: Fred Fuchs
Producer: Gary Marcus
Producer: Georgia Kacandes
Producer: Michael Douglas
Writer: John Grisham
Writer: Michael Herr
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: AC-3, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 135 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-07-24
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of John Grisham's The Rainmaker (Special Collector's Edition)
Movie Review: The Rainmaker....the Irony of Irony
Summary: 5 Stars
I rented John Grisham's The Rainmaker and i have to say, i enjoyed the movie.
from the very beginning to the end, it was a very thoughtful, well crafted, well acted out movie with a heck of a story line and full of IRONY.
The very title, The Rainmaker almost implies to play God, to dictate circumstances so to speak.
Rudy Baylor (Matt Damon) is a fresh out of law school attorney who sets the tone of his character at the very beginning of the movie when he says that he bartended to go to law school and how unlike other attorneys, he didn't have anything available after finishing law school. No law firms waiting, nothing. He had to look for a job.
Danny DeVito's character is a paralawyer, he finished law school but can't pass the bar exam (6 times failed). He works for a law firm owned by Bruiser Stone (Mickey Rourke) in Memphis, who in turn, hires Rudy to basically be an ambulance chasing attorney.
DeVito finds out that the law firm they work for is about to get raided by the Government, so he and Damon start their own law firm and quickly start working on the case of Donny, a young 20 something year old kid who is dying of leukemia. He was denied a bone marrow transplant 8 times by the insurance company Great Benefit.
Rudy sues on behalf of Donny's mother and the court action between a rookie fresh out of law school lawyer-just passed the bar exam, and his first ever case and Jon Voit, an experienced trial lawyer is very interesting.
It's Big Coporation vs the little man.
Along the way, Rudy has help from Devito, who is constantly digging up new information, presenting case history to back a ruling, and finding the secretary of one of Great Benefit's executives who claim she "resigned" and wasn't fired and who can also help expose the truth.
I say The Rainmaker has a double meaning because even though Rudy had the truth on his side, he did do some fancy lawyer tricks with the help of DeVito's character. So they burn the insurance giant and get a ruling of almost $50 million in damages, but...as the title of the movie goes, Great Benefit in turn files for bankruptcy and in the end, nobody really wins.
Donny is gone, Rudy has no income because of the bankruptcy, DeVito leaves his partnership with Rudy, and in the end, Great Benefit lost, won, and then lost again by losing the suit, winning the bankruptcy case, and then going out of business.
it's a very interesting story nonetheless and as a fan of lawyer movies, it's a must see.
Summary of John Grisham's The Rainmaker (Special Collector's Edition)
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