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The Rainmaker
1997
· Movie
· 135 min
B
MEANRANK
73/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1708
- IMDb #1738
- Google retired #1181
- Rotten Tomatoes #1633
- Metacritic #1422
- Letterboxd #1906
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1883
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1847
- Metacritic Critics #1319
- Metacritic Audience #1787
- Kinopoisk #1451
- AlloCiné #1615
- Trakt #1575
Every rating
47–90
out of 100
A idealistic young lawyer, fresh out of law school, takes on his first case against a powerful and corrupt insurance company. He teams up with a cynical paralegal to represent a family whose claim for a life-saving medical treatment was wrongfully denied. The inexperienced duo must use every trick they can find to battle the insurance company’s ruthless team of high-priced attorneys in a seemingly hopeless lawsuit.
Details
- Director
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Writers
- Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Herr
- Based on
- The Rainmaker by John Grisham
- Released
- 18 November 1997
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 135 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $40.0M
- Box office
- $45.9M
- Awards
- 1 win, 0 nominations
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| National Board of Review: Top Ten Films 1997 | National Board of Review: Top Ten Films | Winner |
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National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
1 nomination, 1 won
| National Board of Review: Top Ten Films | Winner |