
The Rainmaker
- PG-13
- Year:
- 1997
- 135 min
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All his life.
He wasn't a great guy. He drank
and beat up my mother, and me, too.
You might think I became a lawyer
to piss him off, but you'd be wrong.
I'd wanted to be a lawyer since I read
about civil rights lawyers of the 60's, -
- and the amazing uses they found
for the law. They did the impossible:
They gave lawyers a good name.
So I went to law school. It pissed my
dad off, but he was pissed off anyway.
In my first year, he got drunk and fell
off a ladder made by his own company.
He didn't know who to sue first.
He died a couple of months after that.
Some of my classmates knew they'd
be going from school to top law firms, -
thanks mostly to family connections.
My only connections were made in
the bars I worked in to pay my tuition.
I still had plans to shine the light
of justice into every dark corner, -
- but I needed a job, badly.
There's too many lawyers in Memphis.
This city's infested with them.
I don't think so.
What can be more embarrassing than
admitting you work for Bruiser Stone?
I mean, he's a lawyer, and they call him
"Bruiser". That's how desperate I am.
- Shut the door.
- No, not that. Not that, either.
Sure. Let's make it my house.
I pity the FBI technician who'll have to
extract the data from that conversation.
Live sharks in a lawyer's office.
It's a joke, get it?
- So Prince, is this the law student?
- Yes. I just finished my third year.
Couldn't you use him here?
I'll vouch for him. The boy needs a job.
He's tended bar at our clubs.
for you to work, Rudy. A great place.
You'd see what real lawyers do.
It ain't exactly a salaried position.
- It isn't?
- My associates pay for themselves.
Talk to me.
- How exactly does that work?
- You draw a thousand dollars a month.
You keep one third
of the fees you generate.
If you can't cover your draw at the end
of the month, you owe me the balance.
- Do you understand?
- Sounds fair to me, Rudy.
You'll make a lot of money.
That's the only way I operate.
And I'll get you a lot of good cases.
I have cases.
One is a will I'm drafting for an
older woman. She's worth millions.
My other case is an insurance case.
Great Benefit. You heard of them?
- You got these clients signed?
- I'm on my way to see them now.
- I helped them before, at a workshop.
- I want you to talk to Deck Shifflet.
He used to work with the big insurance
firms. He handles the big stuff here.
Deck!
- You got the paperwork on this stuff?
- In my car.
Hey, good-looking.
This is Deck Shifflet.
He'll get you plugged in.
Draw up a lawsuit against
Great Benefit, and put my name on it.
- We're gonna file it today.
- Thank you.
- Rudy, I'm glad you came here.
- You're making good choices already.
- Close the door on your way out.
If there's somebody in an office,
you can't have it.
This is the bathroom.
Sorry.
- Are you an associate here?
- Sort of. Actually, I'm not a lawyer yet.
Bruiser asks me to review
the insurance cases.
I used to work for Specific Mutual.
I got sick of that, I went to law school.
- When did you finish law school?
- Five years ago.
I'm having a little trouble with
the bar exam. I sat for it six times.
- When do you take yours?
- In three weeks. It's that hard?
Yeah. I took it a year ago,
I don't think I'm gonna take it again.
This is Bruiser's library. If you want to
use the fridge, put your name on stuff.
Put that in for me.
Daisy, I made a mess here.
Pick that up, huh?
What happens when you go to court?
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