Dustin Hoffman
Raymond 'Ray' Babbitt
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Dec 16, 1988 · Rain Man: Directed by Barry Levinson. With Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino, Gerald R. Molen. After a selfish L.A. yuppie learns his estranged father left a fortune to an autistic-savant brother in Ohio that he didn't know existed, he absconds with his brother and sets out across the country, hoping to gain a larger inheritance.
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- Drama
- Barry Levinson
- 1988-12-16
Rain Man is a 1988 American road comedy-drama film directed by Barry Levinson and written by Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass.It tells the story of abrasive, selfish, young wheeler-dealer Charlie Babbitt (), who discovers that his estranged father has died and bequeathed virtually all of his multimillion-dollar estate to his other son, Raymond (Dustin Hoffman), an autistic savant of whose ...
- December 16, 1988
- Mark Johnson
This is not a movie like "Charly" in which there is a miracle cure. "Rain Man" works so well within Raymond's limitations because it is a movie about limitations, particularly Charlie's own limited ability to love those in his life, or to see things from their point of view. As the film opens, we see Charlie frantically trying to juggle his way ...
When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and that his father's $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives. Motivated by his father's money, Charlie checks Raymond out of the facility in order to return with him to Los ...
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 4, 2022. Rain Man really belongs to Hoffman, whose precisely limned Raymond is in a class with his other amazing transformations in Tootsie, Little Big ...
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