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The Rainmaker
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Fresh out of law school and desperate for work, idealistic rookie Rudy Baylor takes on a powerful insurance company accused of denying a dying boy’s claim. Teaming up with a scrappy, unlicensed paralegal, he finds himself in a David-versus-Goliath courtroom battle that tests his ethics, courage, and belief in justice. From TMDB
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The Rainmaker is a 1997 drama film, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Matt Damon, Claire Danes and Danny DeVito.
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60 of 227 · most liked firstAnother good movie “The Rainmaker” w Matt Damon
positive · AI labelView post →This was the plot of the John Grisham book, and Francis Ford Coppola movie The Rainmaker, it was supposed to be a scandal, punishable by law, and now it's just something we all accept as the cost of being alive in America, so stockholders can increase their value, and corporations can fete their executives ..... well, one less today than yesterday.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Rainmaker (as a movie) was released in 1997 John Q was released in 2002 Last Holiday was released in 2006 Leverage debuted in 2008, so did Breaking Bad The initial premise of every one of those begins or contains story about the callous evil of the US' for profit health insurance system
neutral · AI labelView post →I just watched The Rainmaker, Matt Damon movie from 1997. About health insurance companies denying claims. So relevant at this moment.
positive · AI labelView post →And I will never forget that movie, The Rainmaker, where the insurance company actually had a policy to deny all claims when first submitted. Don’t accept no …
positive · AI labelView post →The movie ‘The Rainmaker’ wasn’t enough of a warning for insurance corporations.
neutral · AI labelView post →Books to film 📚=🎞️ The Rainmaker (1995) was adapted to film in 1997 by Francis F. Coppola. The book takes a grittier tone vs the film's streamlined drama. A mostly faithful adaptation, the film adds romantic flair & a nod towards the idea of justice in light of corruption. ☔️🤝💰 #filmsky #booksky
neutral · AI labelView post →No one supports killing but everyone understands if it turns out to be someone who just got sick of Health Insurer’s mantra of #DenyDefendDepose Anyone remember the 1997 movie “The Rainmaker?” 1- www.imdb.com/title/tt0119... 2- www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult... Look how they are rewarded
neutral · AI labelView post →We’ve SEEN this movie already. It was called The Rainmaker, based on the book of the same name by John Grisham.
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching THE RAINMAKER (1956). Director: Joseph Anthony. Burt Lancaster, Katherine Hepburn. Low-key fave growing up. This stage adaptation is oftentimes over-the-top, but I find it strangely charming as well. Hepburn was Oscar nominated. #filmsky 📽
positive · AI labelView post →Today, I wrote about Francis Ford Coppola's last Hollywood film, THE RAINMAKER, and how he finds himself in a for-hire job: thereveal.substack.com/p/working-th...
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching the 2024 version of a superhero movie: The Rainmaker - a young Matt Damon as a fresh lawyer sticking it to a large healthcare company... Actually, forget superhero, this might be my new favorite porno.
positive · AI labelView post →United Healthcare denies 1 in 3 medical claims. It’s like their policy. It’s right out of the movie, “The Rainmaker”.
neutral · AI labelView post →John Grisham wrote a whole book about shitbag insurance companies killing patients with denial protocols, it’s called The Rainmaker and there’s a movie too.
neutral · AI labelView post →John Grisham tried to tell us in The Rainmaker. Good book. Good movie.
positive · AI labelView post →For the kids out there, read The Rainmaker by John Grisham (or watch the movie). His stuff is usually hyperbole but he basically nailed the type of company that used to be in the individual insurance business. States would shut them down and they’d pop back up somewhere else.
neutral · AI labelView post →Turning a 700+ page book into a 2 hour film usually leaves opportunities for improvement; Francis Ford Coppola's Matt Damon movie cut a few corners, now John Grisham has his own tv version of The Rainmaker. It's about an idealistic lawyer learning the ropes. 3/5 film-authority.com/2025/08/18/t...
neutral · AI labelView post →I remember how upset I was after reading The Rainmaker by J. Grisham. Then more upset after I saw the movie. All about corporate greed. Now, these corporations will be much emboldened by the corrupt orange boi who would be happy to take bribes from greedy corporations.
positive · AI labelView post →The Rainmaker by John Grisham was a great story abt the health insurance industry. Movie had Matt Damon, Mikey Rourke & Danny Devito…. Loved it
positive · AI labelView post →The most ostensibly mid dramas of the 90s look better than almost every movie made in the last 20 years. - guy who just rewatched The Rainmaker
positive · AI labelView post →It's a tragedy of spiraling game development costs that kids today will never know the simple pleasures of an inept, rushed, borderline-unplayable movie tie-in game. My generation was forged in the broken platforming mechanics and clipped sprites of John Grisham's The Rainmaker for SNES.
positive · AI labelView post →EDIT: the film is “The Rainmaker 1997” not 1977. 👨💻
neutral · AI labelView post →#MarchMovieChallenge #FilmSky 20: Somebody is under the weather in a movie The Rainmaker - 1997
neutral · AI labelView post →"I always wanted to be a movie actress. I thought it was very romantic. And it was." Remembering Katharine Hepburn, born on today's date in 1907. I loved her in so many films. Some of my favorites are Stage Door, Christopher Strong, Holiday, and The Rainmaker. And Alice Adams. What about you?
neutral · AI labelView post →The Rainmaker was a John Grisham book that came out in 1995 (Francis Ford Coppola directed the movie version in '97) describing all the tricks a health insurance company used to deny a leukemia claim. I'm glad we've advanced so far in almost 30 years.
neutral · AI labelView post →I work for an insurance company. All insurance companies, regardless of whether it's health, home & auto or life insurance, they all have the same playbook. Find a loophole so we don't have to pay. It's how claims department employees are trained. The movie The Rainmaker describes it best.
neutral · AI labelView post →There was a movie about this! Matt Damon starred; based on a John Grisham novel ~ “The Rainmaker”
neutral · AI labelView post →The cynicism surrounding the USA court system is not without cause, but the suggestion to not even bother trying has always rubbed me the wrong way. Firstly, on philosophical grounds, it's defeatism and on-par with appeasement. But secondly, average Americans can and have prevailed when up against a multinational company. The one which often comes to mind is the case of a Philadelphia man winning a default judgement against Wells Fargo and was on the cusp of having the local sheriff auction…
neutral · AI labelView post →USA has a series version of John Grisham’s “The Rainmaker”. In order to make series work though, I think they have to stray too far from the book, or even movie adaptation. Will probs still check it out #TVSKY
neutral · AI labelView post →Reminds me of the movie The Rainmaker.
neutral · AI labelView post →No one supports killing but everyone understands if it turns out to be someone who just got sick of Health Insurer’s mantra of #DenyDefendDepose Anyone remember the 1997 movie “The Rainmaker?” 1- www.imdb.com/title/tt0119... 2- www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult... Look how they are rewarded
neutral · AI labelView post →Murder had been justified for thousands of years. No, people shouldn't take the law into their own hands. That being said, when you box someone into a corner this can happen. Go watch the movie "The Rainmaker"
neutral · AI labelView post →A new FEATURE FILM from the visionary director of JACK and THE RAINMAKER
neutral · AI labelView post →It’s THE RAINMAKER a totally forgotten 1997 legal drama directed by Francis Ford Coppola? Who seems to be doing his Dracula thing but rather then 1920s horror cinema it’s 1970s melodrama? Like this is not a 1997 movie, even the acting styles feel 70s
neutral · AI labelView post →"The Rainmaker" John Gresham film was all about this and exposes their sharp practices .. It's disgusting how insurance companies play prophet for profit .. Deciding by % who lives and who dies .. So sorry your Mum died due to wanton criminal negligence
neutral · AI labelView post →Reminds me of the 1997 movie THE RAINMAKER that was based on a book by John Grisham. The book and the movie were both pretty good. Excellent storyline. The truth of this will tick you off. I have both. I may watch it again now. Then I’ll get the book out. 🎥 📚 📖
positive · AI labelView post →They got all their ideas from "The Rainmaker." CEO saw that movie and thought, "Hell yeah, I want to be just like that asshole who denied that kids' claims until he died"
neutral · AI labelView post →Oh no, I just saw a promo for a *new* original show on USA, so I guess they are back in the fiction business, and they chose ... The Rainmaker. Yes, based on the Grisham novel and starring a guy who could pass for Matt Damon who starred in the 1997 movie they already made. Ew. Try harder, no thanks
negative · AI labelView post →@cinechallenges.bsky.social #Filmsky Week 52 Film 2: The Rainmaker. Matt Damon is excellent in a lesser known Coppola film is not top tier Grisham but it does examine the disgusting policies of the American healthcare industry. Ably supported by De Vito and a villainous Voight 7/10
positive · AI labelView post →I don’t think even the screenwriters of either The Rainmaker or As Good As It Gets remember that there were health insurance subplots in either movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →An excellent example, though it’s fiction, is the book and movie “The Rainmaker” by John Grisham. Some of the healthcare insurance industry’s worse tactics are on display.
neutral · AI labelView post →Forgot to mention that you were treated for acne as a teenager? "Fraud" -- policy invalid, no insurance for you (and also you owe us for the claims we paid previously). Watch the movie "The Rainmaker" for a courtroom-drama depiction of how it was enacted.
neutral · AI labelView post →Don’t usually make film recommendations, but The Rainmaker, currently on Netflix is a very good movie. It’s about a corrupt medical insurance company.
positive · AI labelView post →It's not a show, or at least it wasn't a show last I looked, but John Grisham's *The Rainmaker* was about insurance. It was a book first, then it was a movie. I'm not sure because a few books that have been adapted into movies were later adapted into shows. *The Lincoln Lawyer* was one; I seem to remember a few others. The story (/plot) is, a guy dies of cancer because the drug that could have saved him wasn't approved by his insurance company. He'd paid his premiums for decades, but they…
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m watching The Rainmaker. It’s so good. Jon Voight 100% believes he’s the hero in that movie. What a creep.
positive · AI labelView post →In the 1997 film The Rainmaker, the character Deck Shifflet (played by Danny DeVito) refers to Rudy Baylor (Matt Damon)'s specific insurance company as "the scratch-and-sniff armpit of the industry" FYI, Now is a good time to rewatch this movie. Creds to our own Matt Damon ~ bluesky
neutral · AI labelView post →CINEMA SUNDAY🍿 #podcast S2 Trial by Jury Episode 6: The Rainmaker #trials #movie #corruption
neutral · AI labelView post →It sounds like the perfect motto for the insurance company Great Benefit in the book/movie The Rainmaker.
neutral · AI labelView post →Has everyone seen the movie The Rainmaker? If not, watch it.
neutral · AI labelView post →Robodebt level evil. Do you remember the 1997 movie The Rainmaker with Matt Damon? Based on John Grisham book. Plot: Payment for bone marrow transplant denied 8 times by insurer. Lawyer uncovers a scheme Insurer ran to deny payment to every insurance claim submitted, regardless of its validity.
neutral · AI labelView post →The main legal case in the movie the Rainmaker starring Matt Damon is related in that the health insurance company pulled out all the stops to avoid paying for life saving care because it was “not medically necessary”
neutral · AI labelView post →Earl Holliman, Star of ‘The Rainmaker,’ ‘Forbidden Planet,’ Dies at 96 variety.com/2024/film/ne...
neutral · AI labelView post →THE RAINMAKER - (1997) ⭐⭐⭐⭐🌓 Last night's #Movie Directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Matt Damon, Claire Danes, Jon Voight, Mary Kay Place, Mickey Rourke, Danny DeVito, Danny Glover, Roy Scheider, Virginia Madsen & Teresa Wright in a legal drama based on John Grisham's novel. #TheRainmaker
positive · AI labelView post →"John Grisham's The Rainmaker," directed by Francis Ford Coppola and shot where I live in Memphis, on the other hand, is a very good movie. Some contrived legal moments, normal for Grisham, but otherwise good and shot in the area I live in, Memphis. #TCMParty #TheRainmaker
positive · AI labelView post →Watching The Rainmaker series,it's quite good,some similarities to the film which I really enjoyed,but the series certainly has promise
positive · AI labelView post →Watching the new series on USA, “The Rainmaker”. I’ve read the book and I’ve seen the movie. Hopefully it’s a good way to pass the time while the feeds are down
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching a movie to get away from the news, 1997's John Grisham's, The Rainmaker. There's a reason I'm mentioning it. It's pertinent to today & how the medical insurance business is all about business. Most doctors arms are tied. Except some are in cahoots with their own group Very sad movie😓
negative · AI labelView post →The Rainmaker! Great movie.
positive · AI labelView post →There was a whole book/movie about this in (book 1995, movie 1997); nothing has changed. The Rainmaker g.co/kgs/ZHyafjL
neutral · AI labelView post →this 👇👇👇👇 if you want to see this kind of thing in action, watch the old movie The Rainmaker. It's heartbreaking, even more so in it's accuracy.
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