DVD 135 min. IMDB 6.8

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Thriller

Matt Damon	Rudy Baylor
Danny DeVito	Deck Shifflet
Claire Danes	Kelly Riker
Jon Voight	Leo F. Drummond
Mary Kay Place	Dot Black
Dean Stockwell	Judge Harvey Hale
Teresa Wright	Miss Birdie
Virginia Madsen	Jackie Lemancyzk
Mickey Rourke	Bruiser Stone
Andrew Shue	Cliff Riker

Regisseur	Francis Ford Coppola
Producent	Michael Douglas; Fred Fuchs
Schrijver	John Grisham; Francis Ford Coppola

Rudy Baylor's a young lawyer who goes to work for an ambulance chaser. He brings with him a case wherein a woman wants to sue an insurance company, that stalled on paying her son's medical bills, eventually he got too ill that he's now terminal. When his boss is investigated for his unethical practices, Deck Schifflet, another man who works at the law office, suggests that he and Rudy open their own office which they do. Deck has gone to law school but for some reason has not yet passed the bar. And now the two of them, try to handle the case themselves but they are up against Leo Drummond, a powerful and wily lawyer. And Rudy would like to do things honestly.