The Rainmaker (2025) is a legal drama based on the eponymous novel by John Grisham published in 1995.

A young lawyer, Rudy Baylor (Milo Callaghan) takes on a wrongful death suit involving an African American man who died while undergoing hospital care.

The hospital alleged that the man had died of an overdose, but they were covering up the murder of the man by one of their nurses, Melvin Pritcher (Dan Fogler).

Melvin Pritcher turns out to have been in & out of foster care as a child because of his mother’s substance problems.

*spoiler alert* Melvin Pritcher ends up in prison along with one of the lawyers covering up the hospital’s cover up.