LAM1010: The Rainmaker
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🗓️ 31 December 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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LAM 1010 - After taking a break with a couple of things we actually enjoyed (Juror #2 and My Cousin Vinny), Law’d Awful Movies returns to form with the first two episodes of USA’s uniquely terrible adaptation of John Grisham’s classic 1995 legal thriller The Rainmaker. Thomas, Lydia, and Matt review the show’s bizarre and often cowardly divergences from the source material, its AI-level of understanding of how humans operate in the world and talk to one another--and, of course, the many ways that The Rainmaker gets the most basic elements of law (and lawyering) wrong.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to opening arguments. I'm Thomas Smith and got a special one for you. |
| 0:20.6 | A lot awful movies. |
| 0:21.9 | It's been far too long since we've gotten one out. |
| 0:24.4 | And since it's the holidays, since everybody's busy, we thought rather than do the |
| 0:28.9 | YouTube show this week, we would give a lot awful movies. |
| 0:33.0 | It's a very long one. |
| 0:34.2 | So patrons, patreon.com slash law, are getting a very long episode. And I wanted to give |
| 0:39.4 | you all, everybody, for free, a nice long preview. It's a, it's an episode length. But of course, |
| 0:47.1 | you've got to go on patreon.com slash law pledge at that $2 level and above to get the full thing. |
| 0:51.9 | But even if you aren't able to do that, I still want to |
| 0:54.6 | make sure you got plenty. So this is a full episode length. And this one was very fun. We did |
| 1:00.5 | The Rainmaker, the TV show. And it was so bad. It was, oh my God, it's so bad. Can't wait for |
| 1:07.1 | y'all to hear it. We had a ton of fun doing this. And like I said, the full thing is up on Patreon, but I hope you'll enjoy this preview, because I know we enjoyed it. |
| 1:16.9 | So thanks so much for listening. |
| 1:18.4 | I hope you enjoy. |
| 1:22.9 | Welcome to Lot Awful Movies. |
| 1:24.7 | Oh, wait, I need to do it like they do in The Rainmaker. |
| 1:27.2 | Lydia, Matt, are you ready to be a lot awful movie? |
| 1:32.6 | Can I answer? |
| 1:33.7 | No. |
| 1:33.9 | It's a complete non-sequitur. |
| 1:36.5 | We watched The Rainmaker, the TV show, and in a certain point, they just decide for some character to say, do you have what it takes to be a rainmaker? |
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