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The Rainmaker (DVD, 2007)
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- Buy it nowRainmaker (Special Edition) (DVD) Matt Damon Claire Danes Jon Voight
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John Grisham's novel comes to life in Francis Ford Coppola's courtroom drama pitting the little guy against a large corporation. Rudy Baylor (Matt Damon), an inexperienced Memphis lawyer, and his legal sidekick, Deck Schifflet (Danny DeVito), defend a leukaemia victim against an insurance company and its hotshot lawyer Leo Drummond (Jon Voight). Along the way Rudy befriends an abused woman (Claire Danes), helping her escape her husband (Andrew Shue). The courtroom scenes between Damon and Voight are the highlight of this legal yarn as Rudy learns the tough price of being a good lawyer.Product Identifiers
EAN5014437940131
eBay Product ID (ePID)60669675
Product Key Features
ActorClaire Danes, Mickey Rourke, Matt Damon, Dean Stockwell, Virginia Madsen, Danny DeVito, Jon Voight
Film/TV TitleThe Rainmaker
DirectorFrancis Ford Coppola
Release Year2007
FormatDVD
LanguageEnglish
FeaturesSpecial Features\Interactive Menu
GenreDrama, General
Run Time130 Mins
Additional Product Features
Certificate15
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America
Number of Discs1
ScreenwriterFrancis Ford Coppola
Sound sourceDolby Digital
Movie/TV TitleThe Rainmaker
WriterJohn Grisham
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- 24 Apr, 2024
COPPOLA & MATT DAMON DELIVER A CLASSY, RIVETING, GRISHAM TALE.
This is a review of the 1997 legal drama, ‘The Rainmaker’. In the absence of any Blu-ray priced within a normal household budget, we watched it on the 2007 Region 2 ‘Special Collector’s Edition’ DVD, from Paramount Home Entertainment (UK), which comes with a good number of extras. It plays in 2.35:1 Anamorphic Widescreen, and Dolby Digital 5.1, and both looks and sounds pretty good. John Grisham’s legal thrillers translate particularly well onto film. If you are looking for an enjoyable, engrossing watch, for a Saturday night, there is no better place to go. They invariably feature deliciously twisty plots, plenty of meaty, emotional, legal issues to keep the audience engaged, and some entertainingly devious, ruthless, highly paid, sleazy legal eagles, to boo and hiss. And invariably, the hero is a talented, but untested, inexperienced, young novice lawyer, just about to start out on their career. They have been played by an impressive array of young acting stars or stars in the making, including Tom Cruise ~ ‘The Firm’(1993); Julia Roberts with Denzil Washington ~ ‘The Pelican Brief’(1993); Matthew McConaughey and Sandra Bullock ~ ‘A Time to Kill’(1996). This film, in the same vein, stars a young Matt Damon. Damon had left Harvard early, to star in Walter Hill’s wonderful ‘Geronimo: An American Legend’(1993). It was not the success that was predicted. He was in the process of launching ‘Good Will Hunting’, a screenplay he co-wrote with Ben Affleck. But before that was released ~ to huge acclaim and nine OSCAR nominations ~ he played Rudy Baylor in ‘Rainmaker’. Baylor, like Damon’s Will Hunting, is a poor kid with great ability. He is a bright young law graduate without connections, who has to work hard to find any sort of job on graduation. He ends up ambulance chasing for a shady law film, down at the iffy end of the legal market. And that leads him to work on a couple of hugely emotional cases, that test him both as a lawyer, and as a man. Grisham’s stories are regularly set in parts of America less well-known to British audiences. His heroes frequent the southern states and Deep South, which adds to the entertainment value of the films. Here we are in Tennessee, with its range of drawling accents, ante-bellum attitudes and macho men. The director is Francis Ford Coppola, one of the true greats of Hollywood, in the second half of the 20th Century. This was the man behind ‘The Godfather’(1972) and all its sequels, but also ‘Apocalypse Now’(1979) and ‘Bram Stoker’s Dracula’(1992). ‘Rainmaker’ was amongst his later works ~ although he is still directing, aged 85! He is not a prolific film-maker, but the quality and scope of Coppola’s work is extraordinary, by any measure. This film may have neither the status or the breadth of some of those other works ~ after all, for many film fans, ‘The Godfather Part 2’ from 1974, is amongst the greatest films ever made. However, it is, nevertheless, a film of real power and presence, and is almost certainly, the best of all the Grisham adaptations. Damon is supported by another young star, Claire Danes. She was already successful, with major roles in ‘Little Women’(1994) and ‘Romeo + Juliette’(1996), but she is superb here. Danny DeVito and Jon Voight also star, as Baylor’s colleague and his slimy, big-bucks lawyer opponent. Both are also brilliant. This is SUCH a classy production. The narrative motors along at a brisk pace, the courtroom scenes will have you on the edge of your seat, and the characterisation is wonderful. 5 totally riveting Stars.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 20 Dec, 2018
Classic cinema
Finally got to watch the film last night. Suburb film. DVD quaulity first classVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 04 Feb, 2024
Good John Grisham book turned into a film. Entertaining.
Good film with well known characters. Worth watching.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 14 Feb, 2024
Fantastic film
A fantastic film enjoyed watching it so much so I shall keep on dealing with ebay from now on.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 03 Aug, 2017
Great Film.
Ienjoyed it very muchVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 10 Jun, 2021
GREAT
GREATVerified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 25 Oct, 2023
Good movie
Good movieVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
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