John Grisham himself said it was a " smart, suspenseful " movie, and was disappointed it made so little money.

When asked how he got sober in a 2008 interview, Grisham said, " Actually, I married an underage girl.

The last film Coppola directed in the 90s, The Rainmaker was based on the 1995 novel of the same name by John Grisham.

" James Berardinelli also gave the film three stars out of four, saying that " the intelligence and subtlety of The Rainmaker took me by surprise " and that the film " stands above any other filmed Grisham adaptation ".

He also had a leading role as the head of an eccentric family in the ensemble cast film The Royal Tenenbaums and in yet another Grisham legal drama, Runaway Jury, at long last getting to make a picture with his longtime friend Dustin Hoffman.

Some of his more notable later performances include: Money Train, as a psychotic pyromaniac who terrifies toll booth operators ; Lone Star, in a rare leading role as a Texas sheriff charged with solving a decades-old case ; as Deputy Dwayne Looney in director Joel Schumacher's 1996 film A Time to Kill ( based on the John Grisham novel ); and as a homophobic Marine Corps colonel in American Beauty, a role that garnered him a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

* The John Grisham book The Runaway Jury and the film adaptation Runaway Jury both depict jury tampering.

Other cameos have included Mayo ( guest starring on 30 April 2006 ) and the TV film Sweet Nothing in My Ear ( 2008, as defense attorney Leonard Grisham ), whilst he has played recurring or main characters in Five Days ( 2007 ) and The Passion ( 2008, as Joseph of Arimathea ).

In 2003, Lerman played nine year-old Luke Chandler in the CBS made-for-television film A Painted House, based on the early life of author John Grisham and set in Black Oak, Arkansas in the early 1950s.

The filming was moved to the WWE studios in Stamford, Connecticut under the excuse that Grisham hated to film in the rain.

In 2012 Parker joined the cast of the NBC mid-season show, The Firm, based on the 1991 novel by John Grisham and the 1993 film starring Tom Cruise.

The Firm, the 1993 film based on a John Grisham novel, has many scenes filmed in Memphis.

Grisham appeared as himself in the movies American Hardcore and the Geza X film Rage: 20 Years of Punk Rock West Coast Style ( 2001 )( he also wrote the title track " Spit Up the Rage ").

Todd Grisham ( born January 9, 1976 ) is an American presenter / announcer who is best known for his time in WWE as a backstage interviewer, play-by-play commentator and occasional ring announcer.

Michiko Kakutani of the New York Times gave the novel a negative review, stating " Grisham is too busy charging ahead to bother fleshing out any of these developments " and describing the novel as " a brand-name novel with an unlikable hero, a slapdash plot and some truly awful prose.

Novelist John Grisham grew up in nearby DeSoto County, Mississippi, and many of his books are set in Memphis.

Schumacher has also directed two adaptations of the books of John Grisham, The Client ( 1994 ) and A Time to Kill ( 1996 ), the latter as the personal choice of Grisham.

:* Clanton, Mississippi, a fictional town in the United States and the setting for several books by John Grisham

He directed the films Zapata: The Dream of a Hero, Like Water for Chocolate ( adapted from the novel written by his ex-wife Laura Esquivel ), A Walk in the Clouds with Keanu Reeves and Anthony Quinn, and the Hallmark Hall of Fame production A Painted House, adapted from the John Grisham novel of the same name.

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Roger Ebert gave The Rainmaker three stars out of four, remarking: " I have enjoyed several of the movies based on Grisham novels ... but I've usually seen the storyteller's craft rather than the novelist's art being reflected.

This would be more than the estimated production budget of $ 40 million but a disappointment compared to previous films adapted from a Grisham novel.

Hackman co-starred with Tom Cruise as a corrupt lawyer in The Firm ( 1993 ) and appeared in a second John Grisham story in 1996, playing a convict on death row in The Chamber.

He also starred in his twelfth movie, Mickey, featuring a screenplay by John Grisham that same year.

Voight took a supporting role in The Rainmaker, adopted from the John Grisham novel and directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

Jeff Slade is a detective with the CID department of the local police force led by Kate Grisham, although unusually for such a position he is an armed officer ; carrying a handgun as routine.

The study concluded that lesser-known writers get the biggest benefit from being on the list, while perennial best-selling authors such as Danielle Steel or John Grisham see no benefit of additional sales.

In the present day, Charlottesville's Albemarle County is home to, or has been the home of movie stars Rob Lowe, Sissy Spacek, and Sam Shepherd, novelist John Grisham, the poet Rita Dove, the rock band Dave Matthews Band, and the pop band Parachute.

* Grisham-Previously known as Grisham Spur, it is located on County Road 840 northwest of Bessville.

It is named after Loyd Grisham, a man who helped build a railroad spur here from the Belmont Branch Railroad around 1910.

John Grisham attended first grade at Black Oak Elementary School for one semester, and his novel A Painted House is set in Black Oak and the surrounding area.

Greg Iles ( e. g. Sleep No More, Turning Angel and John Grisham ( e. g. The Appeal ) have often used Natchez in their written work.

* Biloxi is the setting of several John Grisham novels, including The Runaway Jury, The Summons, The Partner, and The Last Juror.

Sutherland was later cast in 1997 ( for only the second time ) with his son Kiefer in Joel Schumacher's award-winning crime thriller A Time to Kill, based on the bestselling book of the same name, written by John Grisham.

In 2006, a book by author John Grisham brought Ada into the national spotlight related to the false convictions and imprisonment of two individuals for the murder of Debra Sue " Debbie " Carter and two individuals convicted of the murder of Denice Haraway that the city officials were under pressure to solve.

He said that drawings of the Dreadnought and printed details about the ship were found reproduced in an undeveloped roll of film taken from Lonsdale when he was arrested with the two civil servants outside the Old Vic theater Saturday afternoon, Jan. 7.

All the sins of ancient Rome are said to be collected into this three-hour film.

* The city in the 1976 film Logan's Run is entirely self-contained for all resources, except power, which is said to be supplied by water moved by the tides.

It was the first motion picture to be shown at the White House. President Woodrow Wilson supposedly said the film was " like writing history with lightning.

Many years later, Bob Heironimus, an acquaintance of Patterson's, said that he had worn an ape costume for the making of the film.

As a fan of the original film, Accola said she never watched the TV show, but thinks that the Buffy film is a " fun girl-power thing ".

Of all visitors who saw Braveheart, 39 % said the film influenced in part their decision to visit Stirling, and 19 % said the film was one of the main reasons for their visit.

In the same year, a tourism report said that the " Braveheart effect " earned Scotland ₤ 7 million to ₤ 15 million in tourist revenue, and the report led to various national organizations encouraging international film productions to take place in Scotland.

However, a viewing of the film itself reveals that Lugosi said this line correctly, the exact words being, " Don't be afraid of Lobo ; he's as gentle as a kitten.

It contains some of Chaplin's most famous gags, such as the Tramp eating his shoe and the " Dance of the Rolls ", and he later said it was the film he would most like to be remembered for.

Marker has said that Vertigo is the only film " capable of portraying impossible memory, insane memory.

In the opening crawl of the film, they are first said to be the next generation in robotics.

He said he was promised a minimum of one percent of the producers ' net profits of the film and did not receive the full amount.

As he would later relate, " So I called up Bart and said, ' Bart, the film is a disaster.

He has said that the decision to direct it was influenced by his having had to defer some of his salary on the low-budgeted Spider, but it is one of his most critically acclaimed films to date, along with Eastern Promises ( 2007 ) a film about the struggle of one man to gain power in the Russian Mafia.

Dziga said, " This dampness prevented our reels of lovingly edited film from sticking together properly, rusted our scissors and our splicers.

As Morris said of the film, " The Thin Blue Line is two movies grafted together.

" So powerful was the performance, that the band said they were not sure the song should have been used in the film, and after watching the film, they considered not playing it on future tours.

New Line Cinema ( one-time video distributor of the original ) acquired the rights to the film from co-rights holder StudioCanal, who will control the European rights, and Carpenter, who will serve as an executive producer and said, " Snake is one of my fondest creations.

In the independent documentary film Plug & Pray ( 2010 ) Weizenbaum said that only people who misunderstood ELIZA called it a sensation.