Story Line
The Rainmaker is a legal drama about Rudy Baylor, a young law graduate who takes on his first major case against a powerful insurance company. Struggling with debt and limited experience, he partners with a small-time legal fixer, Deck Shifflet, and works for a questionable lawyer, Bruiser Stone. The case involves Donny Ray Black, a young man dying of leukemia whose insurance claim has been denied by Great Benefit. As Rudy fights in court, he uncovers corporate corruption and injustice. In the end, he wins a moral victory, exposing the company’s fraud and finding his own sense of justice.