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The Rain People is a 1969 American road drama film written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, and starring Shirley Knight, James Caan and Robert Duvall. The film centers on a middle-class housewife (Knight), who runs away from her husband after learning she is pregnant.
The Rain People: Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. With James Caan, Shirley Knight, Robert Duvall, Marya Zimmet. When a housewife finds out she is pregnant, she runs out of town looking for freedom to reevaluate her life decisions.
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- Drama
- Francis Ford Coppola
- 1969-08-27
In Coppola's film, a middle-class wife drives the family station wagon west in search of freedom. In "Easy Rider," two drug freaks make a fortune smuggling cocaine across the border, and then head east on motorcycles in search of the middle-class dream of retirement in Florida.
On her odyssey across America, Natalie picks up troubled hitchhiker Jimmie Kilgannon (James Caan), a college football player whose life was shattered when he sustained brain damage. But, as she...
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- Francis Ford Coppola
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- James Caan
On her drive, she picks a young, handsome hitchhiker who she learns is Jimmy "Killer" Kilgannon, the nickname gained as a former star college football player. Her sole purpose in picking him up is to have a one-night stand, so that she can emotionally escape further from her life with Vinny.
Unsure of herself, two months pregnant and feeling trapped, Natalie Ravenna leaves her sleeping husband a note and drives away from her Long Island home one rainy morning to find herself. Natalie...
A housewife who feels trapped leaves home and takes up with a hitchhiker.
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