“Francis Ford Coppola’s drama about 27-year-old John Grisham gets a new streaming home”

Fans can enjoy a popular legal drama film from Francis Ford Coppola on a major streaming platform. 1997s The RainmakerRstarring Matt Damon is available on Paramount+ since December 1st.

Based on the 1995 novel of the same name by John Grisham. The Rainmaker follows Damon’s Rudy S. Baylor, a young and idealistic graduate of Memphis State University Law School who takes on a corrupt insurance company. The film features a star-studded cast, including Mickey Rourke as J. Lyman “Bruiser” Stone, a determined and successful ambulance chaser who hires Rudy. Danny DeVito plays Deck Shifflet, a former insurance adjuster with questionable ethics who works with Bruiser and Rudy. The RainmakerThe ensemble also includes Claire Danes as Rudy’s lover Kelly Riker, Jon Voight as opposing attorney Leo F. Drummond, Danny Glover as Judge Tyrone Kipler, Roy Scheider and Mary Kay Place.

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Screenplay and direction: Coppola, The Rainmaker was released in theaters on November 21, 1997 and received positive reviews. Critics praised the outstanding cast and Coppola’s strong direction, with many considering the film to be one of the best adaptations of a Grisham novel. The legal drama currently has an 81% approval rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. However, The Rainmaker was a financial disappointment, grossing just over $45 million on a budget of $40 million.

In June 2024, USA Network announced an upcoming event The Rainmaker Reboot series with Milo Callaghan (Rivals, The Strangers: Chapter 1) as Rudy Baylor, John Slattery (mad Men) as Leo F. Drummond and Madison Iseman (I know what you did last summer) as Sarah Plankmore. The collaboration between Lionsgate Television and Blumhouse Television will expand on the themes of Coppola’s original film.

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Francis Ford Coppola condemns Rotten Tomatoes for ‘attempting to control the cinema’

Shortly after the debut of his latest film megalopolis, Coppola claimed that websites such as Rotten Tomatoes and CineScore controlled the film industry, which negatively affected creativity and received mixed reviews from critics. “Well, Rotten Tomatoes and CineScore and the whole points system is a way to control cinema, which is art and should not be controlled, by treating it like sport,” he said.

The Godfather And Apocalypse now The director continued: “In other words, we all know that in sports the teams play and some win, others lose, and this is a way to control whether the fans leave. And since the modern film industry wants to control how people go to the movies because “They don’t want to lose money, they don’t want to take risks, but real art has risks.”

Francis Ford Coppola The Rainmaker is now streaming on Paramount+.

Source: Paramount+

Rudy Baylor, a newly minted lawyer with no prospects, takes on a fraudulent insurance company in a case involving a terminally ill boy. With the help of a scrappy paralegal, Baylor battles experienced corporate lawyers while dealing with personal problems, including a romance with a battered wife seeking refuge from her abusive husband.

director

Francis Ford Coppola

Release date

November 21, 1997

Pour

Matt Damon, Danny DeVito, Claire Danes, Jon Voight, Mary Kay Place, Dean Stockwell, Teresa Wright, Virginia Madsen

writer

John Grisham, Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Herr

Duration

135 minutes

Character(s)

Rudy Baylor, Deck Shifflet, Kelly Riker, Leo F. Drummond, Dot Black, Judge Harvey Hale, Miss Birdie, Jackie Lemancyzk

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