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Cancer Minor 
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TITLE |
Rainmaker, The (1997) |
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ALT__TITLE |
John
Grisham's The Rainmaker |
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DISABILITY |
Cancer
Leukemia |
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NOTES |
Damon is the
newly qualified lawyer defending a young man |
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who has
leukemia. A bone marrow transplant operation could |
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save his
life. The man's father spends most of his time in the |
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family car
in the garden. He has a mental illness after a war |
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injury which
left him with a metal plate in his head. (his |
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character
isn't developed). There's a scene where Damon |
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meets a
young woman in hospital who has been beaten up by her husband
with a baseball bat. |
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But this
film is not all doom and gloom. There many |
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moments of
humour often provided by Danny DeVito who is |
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brilliant at
the hustler who has never qualified as a lawyer. |
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This is a
beautifully paced film with a great supporting cast. |
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Damon is not
a substitute for Cruise. He's quieter, more |
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sublte like
the film itself. Damon's lawyer gets involved with |
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his clients,
the boy, the girl and an old woman whose children |
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think she's
has lots of money. He's not fighting great causes |
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but for
little people. And sometimes he fails. |
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From the
novel by John Grisham. |
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Notes
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