The Rainmaker

film by Coppola [1997]

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discussed in biography
- In Francis Ford Coppola: The 1990s
  …best-selling novel by John Grisham, The Rainmaker (1997) starred Matt Damon as a young attorney in Memphis whose idealism clashes with the greed of his ambulance-chasing boss. Although it was only a modest commercial success, The Rainmaker received positive reviews. Coppola then entered into a long fallow period, primarily as…
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novel by Grisham
- In John Grisham: Other novels
  1996), The Rainmaker (1995; film 1997), The Runaway Jury (1996; film 2003), and The Testament (1999).
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Damon
- In Matt Damon: Early life and career
  …lawyer opposite Danny DeVito in The Rainmaker (1997).
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Danes
- In Claire Danes: Romeo + Juliet and The Rainmaker
  …Damon in the legal thriller The Rainmaker (1997), Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of a John Grisham novel. Also in 1997 she completed her secondary education, graduating from Le Lycée Français de Los Angeles.
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