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Summary:
Francis Ford Coppola is both scripter and director of this drama adapted from the John Grisham novel about broke, inexperienced Memphis law-school graduate Rudy Baylor (Matt Damon), ready to take any job he can find. Signing on with slimy Bruiser Stone (Mickey Rourke), he learns ambulance-chasing tactics from Bruiser's leg man Deck Schifflet (Danny DeVito) and meets batter... Full Summary >>

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Cast:
Matt Damon - (Rudy Baylor)
Claire Danes - (Kelly Riker)
Jon Voight - (Leo F. Drummond)
Mary Kay Place - (Dot Black)
Mickey Rourke - (Bruiser Stone)
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Review:
Matt Damon shines as a naive young Memphis lawyer whose first few cases teach him a great deal about ethics in this well-done adaptation of the John Grisham novel. Damon falls for an abused woman (Claire Danes), helps an elderly widow re-write her will, and -- in the story's central case -- takes on a team of fatcat lawyers (headed by s... Continue >>

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