When Rudy Baylor, a young attorney with no clients, goes to work for a seedy ambulance chaser, he wants to help the parents of a terminally ill boy in their suit against an insurance company. But to take on corporate America, Rudy and a scrappy paralegal must open their own law firm.
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Matt Damon | Rudy Baylor |
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Danny DeVito | Deck Shifflet |
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Claire Danes | Kelly Riker |
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Jon Voight | Leo F. Drummond |
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Mary Kay Place | Dot Black |
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Dean Stockwell | Judge Harvey Hale |
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Teresa Wright | Miss Birdie |
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Virginia Madsen | Jackie Lemancyzk |
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Mickey Rourke | Bruiser Stone |
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Andrew Shue | Cliff Riker |
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Red West | Buddy Black |
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Johnny Whitworth | Donny Ray Black |
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Wayne Emmons | Prince Thomas |
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Adrian Roberts | Butch |
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Roy Scheider | Wilfred Keeley |
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Randy Travis | Billy Porter |
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Michael Girardin | Everett Lufkin |
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Randall King | Jack Underhall |
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Justin Ashforth | F. Franklin Donaldson |
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Michael Keys Hall | B. Bobby Shaw |
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James Cunningham | J. Michael Floquet |
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Frank Clem | Mr. Van Landel |
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Alan Woolf | Kermit Aldy |
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Sonny Shroyer | Delbert Birdsong |
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Pamela Tice Chapman | Vera Birdsong |
Director | Francis Ford Coppola |
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Writer | John Grisham, Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Herr | |
Producer | Michael Douglas, Fred Fuchs, Georgia Kacandes, Gary Marcus, Steven Reuther | |
Musician | Elmer Bernstein | |
Photography | John Toll |