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The Rainmaker. (1997 film) The Rainmaker is a 1997 American legal drama film written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola based on John Grisham 's 1995 novel of the same name. It stars Matt Damon, Claire Danes, Jon Voight, Mary Kay Place, Mickey Rourke, Danny DeVito, Danny Glover, Roy Scheider, Virginia Madsen, and Teresa Wright in her final ...
The novel revolves around the murder of Keith Russo, a young lawyer in the small town of Seabrook, Florida. Keith was fatally shot at his desk during a late-night work session. The case quickly grew cold due to a lack of evidence, witnesses, and discernible motives. However, the investigation led to the arrest of Quincy Miller, a young Black ...
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Grisham's plot is based in part on the case of a Las Vegas man, William Beebe, who, as part of his Alcoholics Anonymous program, wrote a letter of apology to a woman named Liz Seccuro that he had raped at a fraternity party at the University of Virginia in 1984. It had been a gang rape at Phi Kappa Psi fraternity – the other two perpetrators ...
The Confession. The Confession is a 2010 legal thriller novel by John Grisham, his second novel published in 2010 (the first being Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer ). The novel is about the murder of a high school cheerleader and an innocent man's arrest for the crime. It was Grisham's first novel to be released simultaneously in digital and ...
The Gingerbread Man (film) The Gingerbread Man. (film) The Gingerbread Man is a 1998 American legal thriller film directed by Robert Altman and based on a discarded John Grisham manuscript. The film stars Kenneth Branagh, Embeth Davidtz, Robert Downey Jr., Tom Berenger, Daryl Hannah, Famke Janssen, and Robert Duvall .
John Grisham. John Ray Grisham Jr. ( / ˈɡrɪʃəm /; born February 8, 1955) [ 1][ 2] is an American novelist, lawyer, and former member of the Mississippi House of Representatives, known for his best-selling legal thrillers. According to the American Academy of Achievement, Grisham has written 37 consecutive number-one fiction bestsellers ...
Runaway Jury is a 2003 American legal thriller film directed by Gary Fleder and starring John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman and Rachel Weisz.An adaptation of John Grisham's 1996 novel The Runaway Jury, [2] the film pits lawyer Wendell Rohr (Hoffman) against shady jury consultant Rankin Fitch (Hackman), who uses unlawful means to stack the jury with people sympathetic to the defense.