The Rainmaker (1997)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The rainmaker |
| Original title | The Rainmaker |
| Country of production | USA , Germany |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1997 |
| length | 130 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Francis Ford Coppola |
| script | Francis Ford Coppola Michael Mr. |
| production |
Michael Douglas Fred Fuchs Steven Reuther |
| music | Elmer Bernstein |
| camera | John great |
| cut |
Barry Malkin , Melissa Kent |
| occupation | |
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Der Regenmacher (Original title: The Rainmaker ) is a film by Francis Ford Coppola from 1997 , which is based on the novel of the same name by John Grisham . The main role is cast by Matt Damon .
content
In a law class during his senior semester at Memphis State University , budding attorney Rudy Baylor, recently hired at the seedy Bruiser Stone's office, is tasked with a case of malicious failure to pay by an insurance company . His client Dot Black had taken out health insurance with Great Benefit Life Insurance for her son Donny Ray . When Donny Ray developed leukemia, however, the insurance company refused to pay the treatment costs for a bone marrow transplant .
Rudy Baylor finally files a US $ 10 million lawsuit against the insurance company, only to be faced with an overwhelming force of experienced lawyers, especially star lawyer Leo F. Drummond, at the start of the trial as a complete beginner.
Via detours, Rudy and his colleague Deck Shifflet, with whom he makes himself independent from Bruiser Stone and who helps him with his experience, to obtain incriminating evidence, and he can convince the jury of the Blacks' legitimate claims as well as a systematic malicious refusal to perform convince with Great Benefit : Only around 12% of the claims were paid out in the previous year. The jury imposed a fine of $ 50 million on the insurance company, the highest such judgment in Memphis, which is why Rudy Baylor is called the rainmaker .
The insurance company, however, files for bankruptcy a short time later, also because money was embezzled from top management in order to avoid paying the 50 million dollars. Both the Blacks, who wanted to donate the money to a non-profit association for leukemia sufferers, Baylor and his partner, to whom a third of the money would have been granted, and the lawyers of the insurance company go away empty-handed. Dot Black is still satisfied because the fraudulent insurance company has been stopped.
For personal reasons, Baylor decides not to continue practicing law at the moment and is considering teaching law instead.
background
The term rainmaker is used to refer to lawyers, business people and politicians who bring in a lot of money; so was z. B. Barack Obama called the rainmaker for the Democratic Party . The term is based on the summer rain dance of the North American Indians, in which the main dancer is the rainmaker .
John Grisham describes the business model of certain health insurance companies in the United States, which promise a lot for relatively low premiums, but when someone gets sick, they do little or nothing.
Before the actual shooting, Francis Ford Coppola staged a two-day mock trial in order to familiarize the actors - above all Matt Damon and Jon Voight - with the customs in court. Under professional supervision, the actors were taught the approach of a lawyer. In order to create as much authenticity as possible, all legal documents were imitated as true to the original as possible, in some cases even by a law firm specially hired for this purpose.
German version
The German dubbing was created in 1998. The dubbing company Deutsche Synchron Film GmbH, Berlin, was responsible for it, while Mathias Müntefering was responsible for the dialogue book and Frank Schaff for the dialogue direction.
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Rudy Baylor | Matt Damon | Simon hunter |
| Deck Shifflet | Danny DeVito | Klaus Sunshine |
| Judge Tyrone Kipler | Danny Glover | Jürgen Kluckert |
| Kelly Riker | Claire Danes | Judith Brandt |
| Leo Drummond | Jon Voight | Engelbert von Nordhausen |
| Dot black | Mary Kay Place | Marianne Lutz |
| Donny Ray | Johnny Whitworth | Frank Schaff |
| Judge Harvey Hale | Dean Stockwell | Helmut Krauss |
| Wilfred Keeley | Roy Scheider | Lothar Blumhagen |
| Bruiser Stone | Mickey Rourke | Christian Brückner |
| Jackie Lemancyzk | Virginia Madsen | Daniela Strietzel |
| Delbert Birdsong | Sonny Shroyer | Frank-Otto Schenk |
| Hospital receptionist | Deborah Frazier | Eva-Maria Werth |
Reviews
“A thriller that largely follows the pattern of previous film adaptations of John Grisham fabrics, whereby its ingenuity does not go beyond a technically clean staging. Except for the supporting roles, the film does not allow any deeper insights into the confused and distorted legal system of the USA. "
“John Grisham films are a very special kind of court film. Especially because the stories of the southern author are overflowing with clichés, but at the same time create an apparently rather unidealized picture of the judiciary. (…) Coppola narrates extremely precisely, with great attention to detail, and it is precisely this patience that makes the Grisham material more than one dared to hope for. Three different cases are mixed up and this gives ample opportunity to portray the everyday life of a provincial attorney. Here the film is intelligent and subtle, smart and full of interesting details. You can tell the director has fun playing with Grisham's black and white painting. "
"Recommended"
"Clear judgment: committed & well played"
Awards
- Golden Globe Award 1998
- Nomination for Best Supporting Actor for Jon Voight
- Best Actor nomination for Matt Damon
- Nomination for Best Supporting Actor for Danny DeVito
- Nomination for Best Supporting Actress for Claire Danes
- Sierra Award for Most Promising Actor to Matt Damon for his performance in The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting
- Matt Damon was nominated for an ALFS Award for Actor of the Year for his performances in The Rainmaker , Good Will Hunting, and Saving Private Ryan
- Satellite Awards 1998
- Nomination for a Golden Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama for Danny DeVito
The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.
literature
- John Grisham : The Rainmaker. Roman (Original title: The Rainmaker ). German by Christel Wiemken . (Paperback edition.) Heyne, Munich 2006, 608 pages, ISBN 978-3-453-72089-3 or ISBN 3-453-72089-X
Web links
- The Rainmaker in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The rain maker in the online film database
- The Rainmaker atRotten Tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Der Regenmacher . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; released August 2016).
- ↑ Thomas Bräutigam: Lexicon of film and television synchronization. More than 2000 films and series with their German voice actors etc. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-289-X , p. 302
- ↑ The rain maker in the German dubbing index ; Retrieved October 19, 2008
- ↑ John Grisham's: The Rainmaker. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 25, 2017 .
- ↑ Philip Nathusius (-pn-) in: Das große TV Spielfilm Filmlexikon . Digital library special volume (CD-ROM edition). Directmedia, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89853-036-1 , pp. 10108-10109
- ↑ TV Movie issue 25/2004