Rain Man

– Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance ..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
8.00 / 10
Duration:
2 Hours and 13 Minutes
Release Year:
1988
Rain Man (1988)

Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country.

Rain Man (1988) - Trailer

Release Date:

16 Dec 1988

Language:

English, Italian

MPAA Content-Rating:
R – Restricted

Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. Contains some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their young children with them.

Director:

Barry Levinson

Writer:

Barry Morrow (story), Ronald Bass (screenplay), Barry Morrow (screenplay)

Main Actors:

Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino, Gerald R. Molen

Plot:

Charles Sanford "Charlie" Babbit is a self-centered Los Angeles-based automobile dealer/hustler/bookie who is at war with his own life. Charlie, as a young teenager, used his father's 1949 Buick convertible without permission and as a result, he went to jail for two days on account that his father reported it stolen. It is then that Charlie learns that his estranged father died and left him from his last will and testament a huge bed of roses and the car while the remainder will of $3 Million goes into a trust fund to be distributed to someone. Charlie seemed pretty angry by this and decides to look into this matter. It seems as if that "someone" is Raymond, Charlie's unknown brother, an autistic savant who lives in a world of his own, resides at the Walbrook Institute. Charlie then kidnaps Raymond and decides to take him on a lust for life trip to the west coast as a threat to get the $3 Million inheritance. Raymond's acts and nagging, including repeated talks of "Abbott & Costello", "Four minutes till Wapner" and refusal to fly on an airline except Quantas drives Charlie insane... and out of his selfish world into a cross-country trek of pure love and understanding that these two both have.

Awards:

Won 4 Oscars. Another 22 wins & 22 nominations.

Production:

MGM

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
8.0/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
89%
Metacritic:
65%