Rating of
3/4
Simply awesome!
TheWolf - wrote on 08/17/07
This was a great film. I have to get that out in the open right away. This film didn't really make it on the big screen, it was more of an indie picture, and it was a great choice for Matt Damon, he hadn't quite hit his success with Good Will Hunting at the time, and yet he works out well in this movie along side Danny Devito. While Devito's name may be slightly jaded these days as he hasn't put out any spectacular films lately, The Rainmaker is one film that just does an amazing job from start to finish.
Damon plays Rudy Baylor, a Memphis St. Law School graduate who can't seem to find a job anywhere, until he meets "Bruiser" Stone (Mickey Rourke). Stone is an ambulance chaser, who does whatever it takes, legal or not, to win a case. Rudy, as most law students are when they graduate, wants to take the high road, do everything by the book, and win. What he finds is that sometimes you need to get down and dirty to help your client. In this case, his client is a young boy, dying of leukemia. Seems the insurance company won't pay for a bone marrow transplant that would save his life. Rudy sets out to help the young man and his family, in what turns out to be one of the biggest cases Tennessee has ever seen. Along with his partner Deck Shifflet (Danny DeVito), Rudy sets out to try and prove to the world that the insurance company is nothing more than a big time scam artist.
The film was originally adapted from a John Grisham novel, and while it was definitely rescripted to be different from the novel it still is an amazing film to watch.
