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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.
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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- Francis Ford Coppola
- 1969-08-27
In “The Rain People” Coppola takes his characters across a carefully observed American landscape. Miss Knight and Caan drive through small country towns, and big cities. But the Shirley Knight character filters the landscape through her own disillusionment and despair.
R | Drama | 1h 42m. 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.
- Francis Coppola
Play Trailer. Rain people are very fragile…one mistake in love and they dissolve. Overview. When a housewife finds out she is pregnant, she runs out of town looking for freedom to reevaluate her life decisions. Francis Ford Coppola. Director, Writer.
The Rain People. NEW. 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...
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