FILM SHEET
The Rainmaker
The Rainmaker / Francis Ford Coppola / United States / 1997 / 135 min.
IN-ROOM SCREENING
- Where: Sala Pasolini
- When: 15/11/24, h 23.00
| Original title | The Rainmaker |
| English title | The Rainmaker |
| Direction | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Genre | Drama |
| Year | 1997 |
| Nation | United States |
| Length | 135 min. |
| Script | John Grisham |
| Screenplay | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Cinematography | John Toll |
| Editing | Melissa Kent, Barry Malkin |
| Music | Elmer Bernstein |
| Costume design | Aggie Guerard Rodgers |
| Set design | Howard Cummings, Bob Shaw, Barbara Minch |
| Make Up | Lois Burwell |
| Producer | Michael Douglas, Fred Fuchs, Steven Reuther |
| Production | American Zoetrope, Constellation Films, Paramount Pictures |
| Distribution | |
| Cast | Matt Damon, Danny DeVito, Claire Danes, Jon Voight, Mary Kay Place, Danny Glover, Teresa Wright |
SYNOPSIS
Rudy Baylor, a recent law school graduate awaiting his bar exam results, finds himself, through convoluted circumstances, in contact with Dot Black. The woman, whose teenage son is dying of leukemia, asks for his help because the insurance company refuses to grant them any compensation. Thus begins a long and exhausting legal battle against a powerful insurance company to secure the sick young man’s recognition of his rights.