August 22, 2009
Excellent movie. Great acting, great story - just awesome all the way around.
Matt Damon, Danny DeVito, Claire Danes
An idealistic young lawyer and his cynical partner take on a powerful law firm representing a corrupt insurance company.
DVD Release Date: November 17, 1998
Stats: 877 reviews
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December 21, 2008I have hardly ever seen a movie that is as good as the novel it is based upon, so I wasn't expecting this movie to be better than the novel. The story isn't as interesting in this movie, but the cast is great, the entertainment value is excellent, and veteran Director Francis For...( read more)
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July 26, 2008a really good film about a lawyer with morals in a world full of lawyers that lack them. amongst his cases are an elderly womans will, a young lady's domestic violence case and a mothers loss of a son due to an insurance company not paying out when he became ill. damon's characte...( read more)
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June 22, 2008Let me get this known: John Grisham is a fried, unoriginal hack who slaps new titles on old material. Hopefully Coppola will avoid this same fate...or maybe not.
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August 14, 2007Excellent movie about how the health insurance companies try to cheat their clients.
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September 8, 2009It was a very powerful movie with a great message. The acting was great. It was funny, too!
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August 12, 2009Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Based on the book by John Grisham.
Matt Damon plays Rudy Baylor, a recent law school graduate whose first case is against a big sleazy insurance company that refuses to pay benefits to a young man dying of leukemia. Jon Voight (Angelina Jolie's...( read more) -
May 17, 2009Very good story, about a young men who just finished studies and become a lawyer.. He win the case and got 50million from the insurance company!! I just love it,
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