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Jun 26, 2021 · A look at a classic film’s depiction of autism and that developmental disability’s subsequent treatment three decades later. By Nils Skudra. I first watched Rain Man, a 1988 cult classic film starring Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman, when I was much younger and in the early stages of finding out more about the nature of autism after having ...
Rain Man ranks among the most popular films of the late 1980s, owing to a fine screenplay by Ron Bass and a spectacular performance by Dustin Hoffman in the title role. The film combines two of Hollywood's most successful formulas -- the "fish-out-of-water" story and the "unlikely buddies" picture, and there's even a touch of the old "rotten ...
Aug 10, 2019 · by Pauline Kael. Rain Man is Dustin Hoffman humping one note on a piano for two hours and eleven minutes. It’s his dream role. As the autistic savant Raymond Babbitt, he’s impenetrable: he doesn’t make eye contact or touch anyone or carry on a conversation; he doesn’t care what anybody thinks of him. Autistic means self-involved, and ...
Review of Rain Man, Oscar-winning film of Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman as Charlie and Raymond Babbitt, directed by Barry Levinson, based on the life of Kim Peek, in which a desperate hotshot car salesman kidnaps his autistic brother from Cincinnati's Wallbrook institution and drives to Los Angeles, stopping in Las Vegas to count cards, to collect part of father Sanford Babbitt's will
Tom Cruise stars as a self-centered wheeler-dealer who discovers he has an autistic savant brother (Dustin Hoffman) and takes him on an unforgettable, cross-country road trip in this hysterical, profound and heartwarming Best Picture Oscar®-winner. 5,751 IMDb 8.0 2 h 13 min 1988. X-Ray R.
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Dec 17, 2008 · Theater Review: Rain Man. Reversing the usual path of play to movie, the hit West End production of "Rain Man," with an adaptation by Dan Gordon, has Hollywood star Josh Hartnett in the film's Tom ...
