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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.
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.
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...
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When a housewife finds out she is pregnant, she runs out of town looking for freedom to reevaluate her life decisions. 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 ...
The Rain People (1969) - Turner Classic Movies. 1h 41m 1969. Overview. Synopsis. Credits. Photos & Videos. Film Details. Articles & Reviews. Notes. Brief Synopsis. A housewife who feels trapped leaves home and takes up with a hitchhiker. Cast & Crew. Read More. Francis Ford Coppola. Director. James Caan. Jimmie "Killer" Kilgannon. Shirley Knight.
Sep 10, 2012 · The Rain People 1969, directed by Francis Ford Coppola | Film review. Film. Time Out says. Coppola's fourth feature, a fascinating early road movie made entirely on location with a minimal crew...
When a housewife finds out she is pregnant, she runs out of town looking for freedom to reevaluate her life decisions.
The Rain People. DRAMA. Stifled by her marriage, a pregnant young woman (Shirley Knight) journeys across the United States. In her travels she bonds deeply with a brain-damaged former football player (James Caan)-who now has the mental capacity and the innocence of a child--and explores offbeat, sometimes dangerous intimate encounters in this ...
The Rain People is a 1969 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Alongside Shirley Knight, leading players are James Caan and Robert Duvall, both of whom would later work with Coppola in The Godfather.