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Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise), a Los Angeles car dealer in his mid-twenties, is in the middle of importing four gray market Lamborghinis. The deal is being threatened by the EPA, and if Charlie cannot meet its requirements, he will lose a significant amount of money. After some quick subterfuge with an employee, Charlie leaves for a weekend trip ...
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 ...
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 ...
1) The toothpicks fall off the counter and Raymond is able to count the exact number of toothpicks on the ground in only a matter of seconds. 2) Raymond was able to count every single card in the deck while playing 21 in Las Vegas, always knowing what the outcome would be. 3) In the doctor’s office Raymond was able to multiple complex numbers ...
Surprise mushiness, guys. Charlie becomes less of a jerk, and he manages to find some semblance of a family through Ray. So instead of trying to steal Ray's money, he decides to fight for custody of Ray, even though Doctor Bruner (Ray's physician/trustee back at Wallbrook) thinks it's a terrible idea. The courts end up agreeing with Doctor ...
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 ...
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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
