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The Rainmaker
Synopsis
Francis Ford Coppola is both scripter and director of this drama adapted from the John Grisham novel about broke, inexperienced Memphis law-school graduate Rudy Baylor (Matt Damon), ready to take any job he can find. Signing on with slimy Bruiser Stone (Mickey Rourke), he learns ambulance-chasing tactics from Bruiser's leg man Deck Schifflet (Danny DeVito) and meets battered teen Kelly Riker (Claire Danes), abused by her husband (Andrew Shue). Baylor has his own clients -- friendly Miss Birdie (Teresa Wright), who has a large estate to dispose of, and desperate Dot Black (Mary Kay Place), whose son Donnie Ray (Johnny Whitworth) has terminal leukemia. Medical intervention could have spared his life, but the Great Benefit Insurance Company denied coverage, preventing Donnie Ray from getting a life-saving bone marrow transplant. Rudy finds a place to live in the apartment behind Miss Birdie's house. Deck and Rudy split from Bruiser to start their small firm. When they take on the Blacks' case, they go up against the insurance company's high-priced law firm and are continually thwarted by slick lawyer Leo F. Drummond (Jon Voight). Rudy's voiceover narration was scripted by Michael Herr. Filmed on location in Memphis.~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide
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Full Credits
  • Director:
    Francis Ford Coppola,
  • Writer:
    John Grisham, Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Herr,
  • Producer:
    Fred Fuchs, Michael Douglas, Steven Reuther,
  • Cinematographer:
    John Toll,
  • Editor:
    Barry Malkin,
  • Cast:
    Claire Danes, Matt Damon, Jon Voight, Mary Kay Place, Danny DeVito,
  • Associate Producer:
    Gary Marcus,
  • Assistant Editor:
    Megan B. Agosto,
  • First Assistant Director:
    Gary Marcus,
  • Second Assistant Director:
    David Kelley,
  • Co-Producer:
    Georgia Kacandes,
  • Supervising Sound Editor:
    Michael Kirchberger,
  • Camera Operator:
    Paul C. Babin,
  • ADR Mixer:
    Bob Baron, Paul J. Zydel,
  • Art Department Coordinator:
    Phillipa Sledge,
  • Assistant Production Coordinator:
    Mads Hansen,
  • Boom Operator:
    Scott Kinzey,
  • Construction Coordinator:
    Jeffrey Schlatter,
  • Construction Foreman:
    Thomas Michael Ryan,
  • First Assistant Camera:
    Mike Thomas,
  • Location Manager:
    Scott Elias,
  • Production Coordinator:
    Laura Tateishi,
  • Property Master:
    Eugene McCarthy,
  • Sound Effects Editor:
    Kim B. Christensen, Jennifer L. Ware,
  • First Company Grip:
    Ben Beaird,
  • ADR Editor:
    Clare C. Freeman, Bruce Lacey,
  • Supervising ADR Editor:
    Mark Levinson,
  • Production Design:
    Howard Cummings,
  • Color Timer:
    Phil Hetos,
  • Production Supervisor:
    Katherine E. Beyda,
  • Screenplay:
    Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Herr,
  • Novel:
    John Grisham,
  • Storyboard Artist:
    Brick Mason,
  • Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
    Mark Berger, Michael Semanick,
  • Second Assistant Camera:
    Chris Toll,
  • Unit Publicist:
    Kathy Orloff,
  • Stunt Coordinator:
    Jack Gill,
  • Grip:
    Darryl Wilson, David Leonard,
  • Unit Production Manager:
    Georgia Kacandes,
  • Title Designer:
    Wayne Fitzgerald,
  • Special Effects Coordinator:
    Guy Clayton,
  • Music Editor:
    Kathy Durning,
  • Art Direction:
    Bob Shaw,
  • Greensman:
    David Becton,
  • Set Costumer:
    Eileen McCahill, Daniela Moore,
  • Dialogue Editor:
    E. Larry Oatfield, David A. Cohen, Dianna Stirpe,
  • Costume Assistant:
    Susan Thomas,
  • Transportation Coordinator:
    Dennis W. Milliken,
  • Costume Design:
    Aggie Guerard Rodgers,
  • Negative Cutter:
    Theresa Repola Mohammed,
  • Hairstylist:
    Arturo Rojas, Patricia Grande,
  • Stunts:
    Andy Gill, Scott Wilder, Richard Drown, Barbara Anne Klein, Steve Picerni,
  • Dolly Grip:
    Jeff Kunkle,
  • Assistant Art Director:
    Jeffrey D. McDonald,
  • Extras Casting Assistant:
    Jason White,
  • Second Unit Director of Photography:
    Robert D. Yeoman,
  • Second Unit Director:
    Roman Coppola,
  • Set Decoration:
    Barbara Munch,
  • Makeup Artist:
    Whitney James, Lois Burwell,
  • ADR Voice Casting:
    Barbara Harris,
  • Set Designer:
    Scott P. Murphy,
  • Leadman:
    Jeffrey Kushon,
  • Sound Mixer:
    Nelson Stoll,
  • Assistant Chief Lighting Technician:
    Nick Thomas,
  • Apprentice Sound Editor:
    Erich Stratmann,
  • Foley Artist:
    Dawn Lunsford, Alicia Stevenson,
  • Key Set Costumer:
    Jennifer Jobst,
  • First Assistant Sound Editor:
    Roy Waldspurger,
  • Animal Wrangler:
    David Sousa,
  • Extras Casting:
    Christopher Gray,
  • Transportation Captain:
    Lee Stepp,
  • Co-Editor:
    Melissa Kent,
  • Orchestrator:
    Emilie A. Bernstein,
  • Chief Lighting Technician:
    James Plannette,
  • Prosthetics:
    Gary Archer,
  • Assistant Property Master:
    Jeffrey Paul Johnson,
  • Foley Mixer:
    David Betancourt,
  • ADR Recordist:
    Douglas Murray, David McDonald,
  • Original Music Composer:
    Elmer Bernstein,
  • Casting:
    Linda Phillips-Palo,
  • Foley Editor:
    Tim O'Shea,
  • Costume Supervisor:
    Winnie D. Brown,
  • Second Unit First Assistant Director:
    Michael Amundson,
  • Still Photographer:
    Phillip V. Caruso,

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