The Rainmaker
The film tells the story of struggling inexperienced attorney Rudy Baylor who takes on a huge fraudulent Insurance company to fight for a woman whose insurance company will not pay for an operation that could save their son's life.
16 September 1952, Schenectady, New York, USA
17 November 1944, Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA
5 March 1936, North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
4 May 1959, Marshville, North Carolina, USA
20 February 1967, South Orange, New Jersey, USA
24 January 1958, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
27 October 1918, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
22 July 1946, San Francisco, California, USA
December 06, 2004
The overbearing soundtrack, unimaginative cinematography, and indulgently tear-jerking ending ... this all adds up to a surprisingly derivative movie from Coppola.
February 09, 2006
This competent, anonymous legal drama (scripted by Michael Herr) is the best John Grisham adaptation yet.
January 01, 2000
Satisfactory mainstream entertainment, with a handful of major actors in juicy minor roles tossed in for good measure.
May 07, 2004
A good example of a talented filmmaker making a small miracle out of a film that was destined for drowning in mediocrity.
May 26, 2006
The Rainmaker is easily the best of the Grisham movies so far, and it has touches of excellence, but it's a routine work.
June 09, 2008
Coppola has never been particularly known for his comic touch, but here he seems bent on leavening the melodrama with as many laughs as possible, and they are generally honest and well-earned.
June 18, 2002
Coppola adapted the novel himself, and he's done a good job of paring it down.
April 09, 2005
It's an intelligent film that doesn't cater to the usual eye-candy we face during the holiday season and is one of the best adaptations of a Grisham novel.
February 08, 2003
Grisham and Coppola (who also adapted the story for the screen) attempt to show us a piece of life, and though the lesson is a bit heavy-handed at times, it does capture the fact that things just don't always work out perfectly in the end.
January 01, 2000
Francis Ford Coppola, who wrote and directed the film, has made the most of Grisham's ground-level realism.
February 06, 2004
The Rainmaker aside from being competently made is not something that stands out for being fresh.
February 14, 2001
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.
