The Rainmaker
Promises precipitation professionally
A rainmaker is someone who brings in money or success—originally a lawyer who attracts high-paying clients, now extended to any business figure who generates revenue or closes major deals: She's the rainmaker who landed our biggest accounts.
The term comes from people who claimed they could summon rain, suggesting someone with almost magical ability to produce results.
In film and literature, *The Rainmaker* is a 1954 play (later a film) about a con man who promises rain to drought-stricken farmers, and separately a 1995 John Grisham novel about a young lawyer taking on an insurance company.
- droughtProlonged water scarcity
- dry spellProlonged absence of rain
- cloudsAirborne water masses
- stormSevere atmospheric disturbance
- lawyerLicensed legal representative
dark clouds · Grisham · shaman · dance · cloud seeding · ritual · precipitation · con · hustle · charlatan · snake oil · salesman · insurance · insurance fraud · personal injury · trial · courtroom · thunder
- Legal Films12 Angry Men, A Few Good Men, The Verdict, To Kill a Mockingbird, Presumed Innocent
- legal fictionlegal drama, courtroom drama, crime fiction, detective stories, To Kill a Mockingbird
- Romantic PlaysRomeo and Juliet, Cyrano de Bergerac, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night
- CoppolaThe Godfather, Apocalypse Now, Sofia Coppola, Nicolas Cage
The Rainmakerdeadweight
Inert, unproductive mass
dead wood · liability · paper pusher · seat warmer · placeholder
The RainmakerThe Firm
Legal thriller about corrupt lawyers
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