The Rain People

– A housewife who feels trapped leaves home and takes up with a hitchhiker...

Type:
Movie
Rating:
6.90 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 41 Minutes
Release Year:
1969
The Rain People (1969)

A housewife who feels trapped leaves home and takes up with a hitchhiker.

Producing Country:
USA
Filming Locations:
Genre:
Release Date:

27 Aug 1969

Language:

English

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:

Francis Ford Coppola

Writer:

Francis Ford Coppola

Main Actors:

James Caan, Shirley Knight, Robert Duvall, Marya Zimmet

Plot:

Having discovered that she is pregnant, Natalie Ravenna, a Long Island housewife panics and leaves home to see if she might just possibly have made something different out of herself; if she can manage to unshackle her grocery list worth of responsibilities that add up to a life with a husband she loves. In a motel room where Natalie stops to rest during the day, she sits motionless on the bed, and experiences the exuberance of complete freedom and the queasy feelings of new beginnings. Natalie continues on with her journey and picks up a young hitch-hiker named Killer, an attractive brain-damaged football player. It is through Killer that a more disturbing question is posed to Natalie than that of domestic responsibility. How deeply are we wedded to chance meetings and are we responsible for the crimes that we witness?

Awards:

1 win.

Production:

Warner Bros.

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
6.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
83%