The Rainmaker 1997 123movies

Watch: The Rainmaker 1997 123movies, Full Movie Online – Rudy Baylor is a young attorney out to make a difference in the justice system. He is also the only hope of an elderly couple after their corrupt insurance company refuses to pay out a claim that could save their child’s life. In this judicial drama, Baylor rails against corporate lawyers, corrupt judges, and abusive husbands, all with the help of a fellow lawyer who hasn’t even passed his bar exam. He is facing long odds in the courtroom – and this is only his first case..
Plot: 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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Ratings:

	7.2/10 Votes: 75,909
	83% | RottenTomatoes
	72/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 1023 Popularity: 17.273 | TMDB

Reviews:

Vastly under-appreciated film
This movie is not a movie that makes you think. It’s not arty, there are no Corleones, there’s really no issues to ponder long after the credits have stopped rolling. Instead it’s a human drama that uses a courtroom battle as its backbone, but the entire body is the honestly-told if ultimately remarkable of a greenhorn lawyer trying to make a life for himself after law school. Like the more recent “Garden State” the movie is far more interesting than one would initially expect.

I recently read the Grisham novel that the screenplay was adapted from and was impressed by the memorable cast of the characters. The corrupt-and-loving-it Prince and Bruiser, Deck Shiflett as the skeezy “paralawyer” who scrapes out a living with an amusing lack of self-consciousness, the bitter-tempered first judge and his pioneering, biased black successor, the politely patronizing and puffed-up Legal Titan Leo Drummond, Cliff and his straight-from-Deliverance hillbilly family, lonely and slightly bossy Miss Birdie, chain-smoking Dot and her addled husband, all of them set a standard for memorable but believable characters.

Yet the movie is itself a cut or two above the original material. The extended cast does a hands-down fantastic job of bringing each character to life. First billing has to go to Danny Devito for transforming Deck from Rudy’s unscrupulous and ugly sidekick in the novel, into a more take-charge and casually hilarious partner. Just take a look at the scene where he leads Rudy into the hospital or when he’s giving out his card to the kids in Dot’s neighborhood. But that’s just one of about twenty stellar acting jobs. The extended cast includes Danny Glover, Jon Voight, Claire Danes, Mickey Rourke (yes!), Virginia Madsen, and a handful of other talented but lesser-known actors who show their absolute best through the skillful lens of Coppola.

Besides the stellar job by the cast, the story is tweaked to absolute perfection. Whether it’s the Coppola magic or an excellent adaptation and editing job, I see a transformation similar to his triumph with “The Godfather”: an absorbing but complex and sometimes rambling story is condensed into its absolute essence. Not a single shot is out of place.

Something else struck me about this adaptation — it reminds me of Peter Jackson’s LOTR in the way comic moments are used to balance out the weightiness of the main plot. For example: in LOTR Merry and Pippin set off Gandalf’s dragon fireworks, or in the second movie Gimli can’t see over the parapet towards the advancing Uruk-hai, or in the third movie Sam and Gollum have their argument over the proper preparation of rabbits and ‘taters and Gandalf instructs Pippin to keep his big mouth shut before they enter the hall of Minas Tirith. Likewise “The Rainmaker” has its little touches of humor as well, from the sardonic lawyer jokes in Rudy’s voice-over, to the scene where Deck fake-helpfully hands over Drummond’s lost shoe after he’s been assaulted by an angry juror, to Rudy’s red-faced apology to the car accident victim in traction whom he has accidentally jostled, to Madsen’s laconic yet particularly devoted husband Bert. (“Guess who DIED last night?” “…Do you ever sleep?”) There is anxiety during Kelly’s return to her house, the suspense of the bug showdown, the pathos of Rudy’s final speech: all these combine with the lighter moments to balance each other like a film version of Pickapeppa sauce.

Who could have ever guessed that a Grisham novel could be so perfectly adapted to the screen?! Just try watching the “Pelican Brief” afterward for comparison. My hat is off to Coppola, his cast, and everyone else who contributed to this understated masterwork.

Not always realistic, but a highly entertaining story
This film was sort of a comeback for Francis Ford Coppola, considering that he had not really made any films since “The Godfather Part 3”, other than “Jack”. In this film Matt Damon plays a young lawyer fresh out of law school, who by chance meets up with spitfire paralegal Danny DeVito, and takes on a huge and difficult case. Fully entertaining throughout, although the ending is almost completely unbeleivable, which is the only negative aspect of this film. I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys a good courtroom drama, I thought it was one of the better ones that I have seen. I rate it *** out of ****, or maybe even a little higher.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 15 min (135 min)
Budget 40000000
Revenue 45916769
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director Francis Ford Coppola
Writer John Grisham, Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Herr
Actors Matt Damon, Danny DeVito, Claire Danes
Country United States, Germany
Awards 2 wins & 10 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Panavision Panaflex Platinum, Panavision Primo and C-Series Lenses, Panavision Panaflex Gold II, Panavision Primo and C-Series Lenses
Laboratory Astro Color Laboratories, USA (dailies), DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA (prints), ZOWI!, San Francisco (CA), USA (video dailies)
Film Length 3,500 m (Italy), 3,766 m
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Panavision (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm