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Nov 21, 1997 · Roger Ebert. November 21, 1997. 4 min read. Rudy Baylor, the hero of "The Rainmaker,'' works the other end of the scale from the legal superpowers in most of John Grisham's stories. He's a poor kid who has scraped through law school by the skin of his teeth, is living in his car as the film begins and signs on with a firm where most of the work ...
- The Pelican Brief
"The Pelican Brief" is the Christmas Grisham, halfway round...
- A Time To Kill
"A Time to Kill," based on the first novel by John Grisham,...
- The Firm
The movie is virtually an anthology of good small character...
- The Pelican Brief
Apr 27, 2022 · The novel and Coppola’s matching movie can quite easily be called the most accessible, calmest, tamest, and most humorous Grisham film. Those easy and winning qualities should have had The Rainmaker getting the kind of basic cable rerun love enjoyed by The Shawshank Redemption with less necessary scrubbing of adult content.
- Male
- August 26, 1979
- Christmas with The Kranks
- The Chamber
- Mickey
- A Painted House
- The Pelican Brief
- A Time to Kill
- Runaway Jury
- The Gingerbread Man
- The Firm
- The Client
John Grisham’s ‘Skipping Christmas,’ a New York Times Best-seller adapted into Joe Roth’s ‘Christmas with the Kranks,’ is a Christmas comedy film written and produced by Chris Columbus. The film follows a couple who decide not to celebrate Christmas without their daughter. Due to this, the couple is considered an outcast and is oppressed by the nei...
The story of ‘The Chamber’ involves Adam Hall (Chris O’Donnell) returning to his hometown to appeal against his grandfather’s death sentence. Sam Cayhall (Gene Hackman) is convicted of the murder of two Jewish children 30 years ago. Adam faces a dilemma as his grandfather was the reason for his father’s suicide. Gene Hackman steals the show with hi...
‘Mickey’ is the only film on the list not based on John Grisham’s novel but on a script he conceived. It is a sports drama involving a widowed father who wrongfully files a suit for being bankrupt during his wife’s illness. The IRS department discloses the truth, forcing him to flee the town with his son. In a new place, his son shines in baseballa...
Based on Grisham’s 2001 eponymous novel that is inspired by his childhood in Arkansas, ‘A Painted House’ was made for the Hallmark Hall of Fame. It is a coming-of-age drama set in the 1950s and centers on 10-year-old Luke Chandler (Logan Lerman), whose perfect summer at the Chandler’s Arkansas cotton farm garners dark clouds after the arrival of so...
Alan J. Pakula’s final film as a producer and writer, ‘The Pelican Brief’ stars Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington in the leading roles. Based on John Grisham’s third novel, the film is a political thriller and centers on the assassination of two Supreme Court justices. Darby Shaw (Julia Roberts), a law student, accurately debriefs the murder myst...
Grisham’s first novel adaptation was made with an ensemble cast that includes Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, and Kevin Spacey. ‘A Time to Kill’ follows a girl named Tonya who is brutally raped by two racists, and his father fights the criminals in court. When justice is not served, he takes matters into his own hands. Roger...
Based on the seventh novel by Grisham, director Gary Fleder consolidated two cinema giants, Dustin Hoffman and Gene Hackman, for the film. However, there are differences between the novel and the movie despite both proclaiming similar cat-and-mouse chases. A mass murder-suicide case is revoked when a woman files a suit against the gun manufacturers...
‘The Gingerbread Man’ proves the significance of Grisham as a writer. Directed by Robert Altman, the film focuses on corrupt lawyer Rick Magruder (Kenneth Branagh), who files a suit against an unhinged man named Dixon Doss (Robert Duvall).He does it under the influence of Dixon’s daughter, Mallory (Embeth Davidtz), and sends him to a mental asylum....
Sydney Pollack adapted the eponymous legal thriller into a feature film starring Tom Cruise and Gene Hackman. ‘The Firm’ follows Mitch McDeere, an ambitious law student lured by money and perks offered by a law firm. Eventually, he finds himself in a hostile environment after dark truths about the firm are revealed. ‘The Firm’ turned out to be a lu...
Director Joel Schumacher adapted the legal thriller from Grisham’s fourth novel of the same name. With the cast of Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones and a thrilling storyline, the film was an overall success. The story follows two brothers who witness the suicide of a mob lawyer, and because of it, one of them faces a serious mental condition. The...
The Rainmaker affords the opportunity to define the key traits of Grisham's protagonists and of his style. First, regarding his main characters, they tend to be in their mid-twenties, just out of ...
The Rainmaker is not without missteps – for example, the latter stages of Rudy and Kelly's relationship seem rushed, as does the ending. Overall, however, this is a well-made, absorbing motion picture that seems a lot shorter than its 140-minute running length. Unlike many of the other films based on a Grisham book, this one is interested in ...
- Francis Ford Coppola
- PG-13
- Matt Damon
The Rainmaker. (1997 film) The Rainmaker is a 1997 American legal drama film written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola based on John Grisham 's 1995 novel of the same name. It stars Matt Damon, Claire Danes, Jon Voight, Mary Kay Place, Mickey Rourke, Danny DeVito, Danny Glover, Roy Scheider, Virginia Madsen, and Teresa Wright in her final ...
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The Rainmaker, by John Grisham, is a legal thriller that was first published in 1995 and later made into a film directed by Francis Ford Coppola starring Matt Damon, Danny DeVito, and Claire Danes. This guide refers to the paperback version published by Dell Books in 2003. Plot Summary.
