The Rainmaker
Nov 18, 1997 | IMDB 7
135 min Watch NowDrama, Crime, Thriller
When Rudy Baylor, a young attorney with no clients, goes to work for a seedy ambulance chaser, he wants to help the parents of a terminally ill boy in their suit against an insurance company. But to take on corporate America, Rudy and a scrappy paralegal must open their own law firm.
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IMDB 6.1 | Sep , 2015
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