The Rainmaker, a persuasive paper John Grisham’s “The Rainmaker,” a novel and now a movie by Francis Ford Copolla. It is the sixth novel to film adaptation of Grisham’s novels and is by far one of the more accomplished. The courtroom drama reveals the ordeals of a young lawyer and associate entering the world of money hungry company’s scams. “They were totally unqualified to try the case of a life time, but …showed first 75 words of 529 total…

…showed last 75 words of 529 total…from Mary Kay Place as the tough-minded mother of the stricken victim, to Danny DeVito as Rudy's assistant, a would-be attorney who has failed the bar six times and refers to himself as ''a paralawyer.'' Even the usually self-indulgent Mickey Rourke makes a good showing as Rudy's oily boss. The Rainmaker isn't a great movie, but it's an involving and compelling one. Given the weakness of the short material, that's nothing short of miraculous.