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The Rainmaker (1997)
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
“They were totally unqualified to try the case of a lifetime... but every underdog has his day.”
Drama · 2h 15m
Fresh out of law school and desperate for work, idealistic rookie Rudy Baylor takes on a powerful insurance company accused of denying a dying boy’s claim. Teaming up with a scrappy, unlicensed paralegal, he finds himself in a David-versus-Goliath courtroom battle that tests his ethics, courage, and belief in justice.
Cast
Matt Damon
Rudy Baylor
Claire Danes
Kelly Riker
Danny DeVito
Deck Shifflet
Jon Voight
Leo F. Drummond
Mary Kay Place
Dot Black
Dean Stockwell
Judge Harvey Hale
Mickey Rourke
Bruiser Stone
Danny Glover
Richter Tyrone Kipler
Virginia Madsen
Jackie Lemancyzk
Randy Travis
Billy Porter
Roy Scheider
Wilfred Keeley
Red West
Buddy Black
Crew
- Director
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Screenplay
- Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Herr
- Novel
- John Grisham
- Director of Photography
- John Toll
- Original Music Composer
- Elmer Bernstein
- Editor
- Barry Malkin
- Producer
- Fred Fuchs, Michael Douglas, Steven Reuther, Francis Ford Coppola
Details
- Release date
- 1997-11-18
- Runtime
- 2h 15m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Douglas/Reuther Productions, American Zoetrope, Constellation Films
- Budget
- $40,000,000
- Box office
- $45,916,769