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	Matt Damon - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Matt Damon (born October 8, 1970) is an American film actor.
		He was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the same film.
		He founded Project Greenlight with Affleck to find and fund worthwhile film projects from novice filmmakers.
	encyclopedia.learnthis.info /m/ma/matt_damon.html (100 words)

	The Rainmaker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Rainmaker is the name of two original stories from which several movies and television programs have been made:
		The Rainmaker is also a 1995 novel by John Grisham
		The Rainmaker is the 1997 film adaptation of the novel, starring Matt Damon and Danny DeVito.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Rainmaker (154 words)

	Berlin Film Festival 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		With The Rainmaker, million-selling author John Grisham returned to the roots of his first and most personal novel, A Time to Kill.
		Unlike the streamlined thrillers The Firm or The Client, in which fast-paced plot progression was a priority, in The Rainmaker Grisham created a nuanced, complex analysis of the US legal system, with frequent moments of fl humour.
		As directed by Francis Ford Coppola, The Rainmaker is intelligent, gripping cinema with excellent ensemble acting.
	www.filmfestivals.com /berlin98/bfilm45.htm (324 words)

	THE RAINMAKER movie review with photos, video
		Coppola may be doing this for the payday (in order to finance his next original film), but he manages to elevate Grisham's overblown story to a passably entertaining courtroom drama which, unlike the book, actually has some drama.
		He befriends her, and by film's end he is emotionally involved with her, in an effort to get her out of this abusive marriage.
		The Rainmaker isn't a great movie, but it is an involving and compelling one.
	www.rochestergoesout.com /mov/r/rainma.html (701 words)

	The Rainmaker (1997 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Rainmaker is also a 1995 novel by John Grisham that was made into a 1997 motion picture starring Matt Damon, Danny DeVito, Claire Danes and Jon Voight.
		Totally disillusioned with the law process and how it can be manipulated by big companies, he persuades Kelly to file for divorce and after she kills her husband in self-defence, he gets her out of jail and they drive off into the sunset together.
		The film follows the book in most details.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Grisham's_The_Rainmaker_(1997) (574 words)

	IMDb user comments for The Rainmaker (1997) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		That part of the film is not distracting, but a nice break from the legalese of the main story.
		In conclusion, "The Rainmaker" may not be as highly memorable as "The Godfather" or "Apocalypse Now", however; it shows that Coppola still has the skills to be a great film-maker.
		In "The Rainmaker" the big insurance company is just as evil as the gun company in Runaway Jury, but here it works becuase the facts that just play out, and we don't need the actors to tell us who the bad guys are.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0119978/usercomments (3571 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Film \| Coppola 'plans directing return' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Coppola's first film since 1997's The Rainmaker will be a low-budget adaptation of Youth without Youth, a novel by Romanian author Mircea Eliade.
		Filming is due to begin in Bucharest later this year.
		Since The Rainmaker, an adaptation of a John Grisham novel, Coppola has reportedly been concentrating on his careers as a producer, hotelier and wine impresario.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/1/hi/entertainment/film/4276358.stm (315 words)

	Rob Waring: The Rainmaker
		The sixth adaptation of a John Grisham novel, The Rainmaker, is one of those rare legal films where the lawyers in the courtroom must ask permission from the judge to approach a witness and are admonished for failing to do so.
		As is typical of my viewing films with law themes in San Francisco, it was clear from the timing and extent of audience laughter that the theater contained a large number of attorneys.
		Although Grisham wrote the novel before the OJ verdict, The Rainmaker is in a sense a small redemption for a profession tainted (in some minds) by the efforts of Messrs.
	www.usfca.edu /pj/articles/Rainmaker.htm (672 words)

	eFilmCritic - DVD Reviews for 9/16:Pimps Up! 'Bots Down!
		Granted, there is no burning reason of why he has to continue to make films—his well-publicized financial problems have been resolved for years, his children Sofia and Roman are carrying on the family tradition with their own highly regarded works and his line of wines have proven to be quite successful as well.
		Visually, the film is a stunner—the cinematography by Stephen Burum is among the most striking seen in any film released in the 1980's—and the Copland score is equally compelling.
		This is a creepy and darkly funny 1982 horror film about a trio of lunatics (including Jack Palance and Martin Landau) who take advantage of a power outage to escape from their asylum and pursue the facility’s new doctor after they become convinced that he killed his predecessor in order to take over his job.
	efilmcritic.com /feature.php?feature=1596 (1417 words)

	Spirituality & Health: Movie Review: The Most Spiritually Literate Films of 1997
		It is also a film that softens the heart in the face of such terrible suffering.
		"Ponette" is an astonishing film experience--the kind of intimat e drama that stops you in your tracks and leaves you marveling at the magnificence of the human soul.
		Brown (Miramax, 1997, PG -- a beating, language, brief nudity) explores the unusual and platonic friendship between the Queen of the British Empire and her Scottish servant in the late nineteenth century.
	www.spiritualityhealth.com /newsh/items/moviereview/item_2989.html (3202 words)

	The Austin Chronicle: Film Listings
		For all we know, John Grisham may have filing cabinets full of unoptioned screenplays in which wealthy corporate and legal interests effortlessly crush scrappy underdogs who naïvely believe their passion for justice can overcome the bad guys' money, power, and treachery.
		At almost two and a half hours, The Rainmaker feels a bit flaccid at times, and a marginally interesting subplot about Rudy's entanglement with a young, abused wife (Danes) could vanish unmourned.
		The film was invited to Cannes and earned Independent Spirit Award nominations for its Austin artists, Kyle Henry and Cyndi Williams.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/Calendar/Film?Film=oid:140874 (762 words)

	Matt_Damon
		Damon's first film job was one line in the romantic comedy Mystic Pizza (1988).
		The war film was an opportunity for Damon to show his dedication by undergoing an extensive weight loss to help portray his character, which almost proved a dangerous move that put Damon on doctor's orders.
		Much of the credit for getting the film made goes to both executive producer Kevin Smith and Harvey Weinstein, Miramax Films chairman, to whom Smith gave the screenplay.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/matt_damon.html (722 words)

	WXIA-11alive.com - Print Article - Atlanta,Georgia,11Alive,ATLANTA,News,Weather,Doppler,sports,events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The following year she was honored with two nominations: lead actress as the wife of Lou Gehrig in "The Pride of the Yankees" and supporting actress as Greer Garson's daughter in the wartime saga "Mrs.
		Later generations saw her in an occasional character role, including the eccentric, warmhearted Miss Birdie in the 1997 film version of John Grisham's "The Rainmaker," starring Matt Damon, and in 1988's "The Good Mother," with Diane Keaton and Liam Neeson.
		Goldwyn fired her in 1948, claiming she was "uncooperative" for refusing to go to New York to publicize one of her films.
	www.11alive.com /news/printarticle.aspx?storyid=59970 (500 words)

	MMI Movie Review: The Rainmaker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		John Grisham is a best-selling author, and his books have spawned six films, with 2 more to come within the next year or so.
		The sixth film in this loosely related series is "The Rainmaker," and it's directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
		Coppola is hardly new at turning a popular novel into a pretty decent film; he did it with "The Godfather" series, for instance.
	www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/rainmaker.html (361 words)

	Another Grisham Novel Buzzes Hollywood - Dec 10, 1997 - E! Online News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Just like The Rainmaker, and every Grisham-penned, barrister-themed work after, the book isn't finished yet and the screen rights aren't on the block, but galley copies of The Street Lawyer are making the rounds.
		While The Firm was the book-film package that put Grisham on the Hollywood docket, The Rainmaker--ultimately assembled by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Damon--was the first to get leaked before it was finished.
		However, unlike the partially completed The Rainmaker draft, which was roundly panned by studios, The Street Lawyer was leaked in an advanced stage of completion and has created good buzz.
	www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,2216,00.html (455 words)

	Review: The Rainmaker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Coppola noted that he wrote and directed The Rainmaker because he was engrossed by the book and saw parallels between Rudy's struggles as a young lawyer and his own early years as a film maker.
		Everything in the film — his relationship with Kelly, his courtroom struggles, and his growing involvement with his clients — is designed to highlight his development as an individual.
		Unlike many of the other films based on a Grisham book, this one is interested in telling a story rather than ambushing the audience with cheap contrivances.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/r/rainmaker.html (996 words)

	1997 in film - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Please note that following the tradition of the English language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the United States and Canada in 1997; because they may have made most of their income in a later year, they may not be the top-grossing films for calendar year.
		The top ten films of 1997 as of January 26, 2006 (U.S. and Canada), January 26, 2006 (UK) and January 26, 2006 (Australia) are as follows:
		In total, three films released in 1997 grossed more than $400 million, reaching international blockbuster motion picture status.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/1997_in_film (279 words)

	Dean Stockwell - Memory Alpha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		He began acting as a child, making his film debut at the age of nine in 1945's The Valley of Decision, co-starring Star Trek guest actor John Warburton.
		His later work included roles in two films from director David Lynch: the contemporary sci-fi classic Dune in 1984, co-starring Brad Dourif, Virginia Madsen, and Star Trek: The Next Generation star Patrick Stewart; and the thriller Blue Velvet in 1986, also featuring Brad Dourif.
		Other notable films in which he has appeared include Beverly Hills Cop II (1987, with Ronny Cox, Tommy "Tiny" Lister, Jr.
	memory-alpha.org /en/wiki/Dean_Stockwell (727 words)

	Film History of the 1990s
		In the film, he 'deconstructed' the Lee Harvey Oswald one-gunman theory denounced by the government-sanctioned Warren Commission with a counter-theory involving higher-ups angered by Kennedy's liberalism.
		The energetic film precipitated at least eight 'copycat' murders and violent incidents by self-professed 'natural born killers,' including two Oklahoma teens who watched the film repeatedly and then went on a similar shooting spree.
		The film was originally banned from theatrical distribution in Ireland.
	www.filmsite.org /90sintro4.html (1795 words)

	The Rainmaker Movie Review
		Clocking in a 2 hours and 15 minutes, "The Rainmaker" covers a lot of ground-- in fact, there is enough material in the book for at least two separate movies.
		Another factor contributing to the success of "The Rainmaker" is the high-quality powerhouse acting from the talented cast.
		The cast is also rounded out by a whole slew of memorable small performances-- Dean Stockwell, Danny Glover, Roy Scheider, Randy Travis (yup, that's him in the jury box), and Virginia Madsen (who has come quite a ways from the R-rated 'sexual thrillers' that she made in the late-Eighties).
	members.aol.com /aleong1631/rainmake.html (632 words)

	Judith Grant: The Rainmaker
		Contending, incorrectly, that it is the business of defense attorneys to determine guilt or innocence beforehand on their own, and then to defend clients (or not) based solely on their own imperfect assessments, subverts a basic tenet of post-Enlightenment democratic societies.
		That almost quaint notion that the accused should be able to face his accuser and defend himself in front of his peers has somehow been rendered in film and television as the subversion of justice.
		For the subject of Rainmaker is arguably the single most unpopular kind of law and lawyering: the ambulance chaser and the compensatory damages lawsuit.
	www.usfca.edu /pj/articles/Rainmaker2.htm (737 words)

	Claire Danes - In Print
		At 10 she was enrolled in the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, and now, one ABC series and four feature films later, including the lead with Leonardo DiCaprio in Romeo and Juliet, this 17-year old has evolving ambitions.
		In Francis Ford Coppola's fall release, The Rainmaker, she plays an abused wife, a part which she concedes was "tricky" for a teenager.
		Once in a while, however, along comes an actress with such natural screen presence that she lingers in the memory long after the films she appears in are forgotten.
	www.clairedanes.com /print1997.shtml (1924 words)

	CNN - Review: 'Rainmaker' cast outshines lackluster plot - Dec. 10, 1997
		Coppola himself has said as much in interviews concerning "The Rainmaker," and his lack of real obsession with the story (the modus operandi behind his greatest films) begins to show like a guilty conscience in the courtroom-bound second half of the movie.
		For the first half of the film, when Damon is just getting his sea legs as a lawyer, the story has a funky, funny zip to it.
		Danes disappears for long stretches of the film, and, after winding up in jail for defending herself against her husband, the entire story line is wrapped up in literally one sentence!
	edition.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/9712/10/review.rainmaker (879 words)

	The Rainmaker (1997) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Trivia: As filming went on, Matt Damon continued to gain most of the weight that he had lost purposely for his role in Courage Under Fire.
		Anyway, this, for Coppola, is a pretty straightforward story, neither the grand opera he's attracted to, nor the more quiet "personal" films that usually come in between.
		Of the current crop of younger actors, Matt Damon seems to me to have the most talent, as opposed to, say, Keanu Reeves.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0119978 (856 words)

	At-A-Glance Film Reviews: The Rainmaker (1997)
		This sixth John Grisham adaptation, The Rainmaker, is more a legal drama than a thriller, and it's a good one.
		The villain in this film is a corrupt insurance agency.
		For comic relief, there's Damon's partner, Danny DeVito, and if casting DeVito in a Grisham film sounds like a bad idea, reserve your judgment -- he's appropriately reserved in the role and manages to be funny without jarring the tone of the film.
	www.rinkworks.com /movies/m/the.rainmaker.1997.shtml (168 words)

	Maui Film Festival at Wailea - June 15-19, 2005
		Preceded by a Bombay Sapphire Reception from 6:30pm-7:00pm.
		Preceded by a Bombay Sapphire Reception from 8:00pm-8:30pm.
		Academy Award and Golden Globe winner Helen Hunt will be honored with the Maui Film Festival's Stella Award, previously presented to Academy Award winner Geena Davis, in honor of how she had positively influenced the status of women throughout the film industry by breathing life into characters that empower, enlighten and entertain.
	www.mauifilmfestival.com /mff-wailea/tributes.htm (1301 words)

	`Grisham's Rainmaker' Makes a Splash Onscreen / Coppola turns book into watchable film with appealing cast
		Not only does it arrive bearing the name of a best-selling author whose courtroom dramas are grabbed up by Hollywood before the ink is dry, but it also was directed by another heavy hitter, Francis Ford Coppola.
		Still, ``The Rainmaker'' has a mostly plausible story, an engaging young courtroom hero (Matt Damon, Hollywood's new cover boy), a giant insurance company as the perfect adversary and the best supporting cast of any movie this year.
		When the film threatens to bog down in legalese, DeVito does some thing to liven things up, such as sticking his business card into the cast of a potential client with a broken arm.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1997/11/21/DD62768.DTL (649 words)

	Flora Plum, Maximum Russell Crowe
		Claire played Juliet to Leonardo DiCaprio's (Quick and the Dead) Romeo in the 1996 film version of the Shakespeare play, and won the London Critics Circle Award for Actress of the Year for her performance.
		She also earned good reviews for her role as a battered wife in the 1997 film The Rainmaker, co-starring Danny DeVito (L.A. Confidential).
		The whole film is told sort of from the memory of all the different freaks and acts looking back on the great Flora Plum.
	www.maximumcrowe.net /maxcrowe_floraplum.html (561 words)

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