Synopsis
When Rudy Baylor, a young attorney with no clients, goes to work for a seedy ambulance chaser, he wants to help the parents of a terminally ill boy in their suit against an insurance company. But to take on corporate America, Rudy and a scrappy paralegal must open their own law firm.
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Cast
- Matt DamonRudy Baylor
- Claire DanesKelly Riker
- Danny DeVitoDeck Shifflet
- Jon VoightLeo F. Drummond
- Mary Kay PlaceDot Black
- Dean StockwellJudge Harvey Hale
- Mickey RourkeBruiser Stone
- Danny GloverRichter Tyrone Kipler
- Virginia MadsenJackie Lemancyzk
- Randy TravisBilly Porter
Recommandations
- 90
The New York Times
Drawing a parade of colorful performances from a constantly surprising cast, the curiously titled ''John Grisham's 'The Rainmaker' '' is Mr. Coppola's best and sharpest film in years. - 90
Los Angeles Times
Though he's adapting the same story Grisham always tells, that of an ethical, talented and inexperienced attorney taking on and outwitting powerful and corrupt legal opponents, Coppola has infused The Rainmaker with enough humor, character, honest emotion and storytelling style to make it one of the year's most entertaining movies. - 90
Chicago Reader
The film delivers old-fashioned star turns and glittering cameos (Jon Voight and Mickey Rourke are especially good, but Danny DeVito, Mary Kay Place, Danny Glover, Virginia Madsen, Roy Scheider, and Dean Stockwell--not to mention old-Hollywood icon Teresa Wright--also provide considerable pleasure). - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
The Rainmaker, unlike most Grisham films, doesn't have to drag a high-paid superstar around and give him all the best lines. DeVito's role is in the fading tradition of the star character actor. - 75
ReelViews
The intelligence and subtlety of The Rainmaker took me by surprise. I don't know if this is because the novel is better than any of the prolific lawyer-turned-author's previous efforts, or if Francis Ford Coppola has performed a near-miracle in transforming the written pages into a screenplay. - 70
Film Threat
Overall, not a great film, but definitely worth a viewing, especially to those who have seen any other Coppola film released this decade. - 67
Austin Chronicle
Director Francis Ford Coppola, who established his towering reputation with an adaptation of another pulpy pop novel, hasn't exactly uncorked another The Godfather here. - 60
Empire
It's just so unremarkable. Which, considering its director's monumental output (both good and bad) is, frankly, a bit depressing.
