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...young, attractive Southern lawyer trying to beat the system. A stunningly beautiful victim turned love interest. A brash villain with dozens of paranoia-fueling spies. Sound familiar? It is the John Grisham recipe for success. Over the past decade, Grisham has shamelessly repackaged and regurgitated the formulaic legal thriller eight times under slightly different veils...
...Actors like Matt are in as good a position as they've ever been," observes Coppola, who chose Damon over fellow finalist Edward Norton for the lead in the new John Grisham star vehicle. "They've become the trademarks of the movies, not the directors. There's barely a movie that can be made without Cage or Ford or Pitt. Now they determine what movies get made." As for Damon's qualifications for joining the short list, Coppola says, "Matt has got the gift--and he's a writer in his own right. That gives him something special." That plus...
...Rainmaker, cleverly adapted by Francis Ford Coppola from a John Grisham novel, is honest, commercial fun, and Good Will Hunting, which is written by Damon and his co-star (and old buddy) Ben Affleck, is finally dishonest, but in ways that will delude the impressionable into thinking it's saying something important...
...young Rudy; she's his landlady who is nowhere near as ditsy as she looks. And like the rest of a constantly bestartling supporting cast, led by Jon Voight and Danny DeVito as deliciously disparate masters of legal sleaze, they're terrific. Another good rule is not to take Grisham novels as seriously as the writer does when you bring them to the screen, and Coppola fulfills that imperative too. This one is about a big insurance company trying to cheat a poor family out of medical payments that might save a boy's life. Justice in this matter...
...YEAR'S RESOLUTION] After The Chamber and trouble on The Gingerbread Man, rethink Grisham...