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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.
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.
Summaries. 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 ...
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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- 1969-08-27
Aug 28, 2019 · The Rain People is as New Wavey as it gets: small, personal, wandering, unlikely to please (and uninterested in doing so), the movie emphasizes character over plot, and was produced in the company of a like-minded cohort of collaborators on both sides of the camera.
Upon learning that she's pregnant, housewife Natalie Ravenna (Shirley Knight) leaves her husband and embarks on a road trip of self-discovery. On her odyssey across America, Natalie picks up...
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Synopsis. Cast. Reviews. The Rain People. Despite an effort by the Warner Bros. publicity mills to turn The Rain People into an instant cult film upon its first release (the ad campaign stressed the intimacy and humanity of the story), this early Francis Ford Coppola effort would have to wait several years to find its audience.
