MPAA Rating: PG13
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Genres: Drama
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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 battered teen Kelly Riker (Claire_Danes), abused by her husband (Andrew_Shue). Baylor has his own clients -- friendly Miss Birdie (Teresa_Wright), who has a large estate to dispose of, and desperate Dot Black (Mary_Kay_Place), whose son Donnie Ray (Johnny_Whitworth) has terminal leukemia. Medical intervention could have spared his life, but the Great Benefit Insurance Company denied coverage, preventing Donnie Ray from getting a life-saving bone marrow transplant. Rudy finds a place to live in the apartment behind Miss Birdie's house. Deck and Rudy split from Bruiser to start their small firm. When they take on the Blacks' case, they go up against the insurance company's high-priced law firm and are continually thwarted by slick lawyer Leo F. Drummond (Jon_Voight). Rudy's voiceover narration was scripted by Michael_Herr. Filmed on location in Memphis. Bhob Stewart, Rovi

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