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Rain Man (1988)

"A journey through understanding and fellowship."
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👍 87%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 76%
Drama

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Runtime
2h 14m
Rated
R
Country
United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
7.8/10 (6,955 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
88%
Metacritic
65

Cast

Dustin Hoffman as Raymond Babbitt · 75% avg
Tom Cruise as Charlie Babbitt · 77% avg
Valeria Golino as Susanna · 73% avg
Gerald R. Molen as Dr. Bruner
Jack Murdock as John Mooney
Ralph Seymour as Lenny
Lucinda Jenney as Iris · 76% avg

Is Rain Man good?

Yes. 87% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics gave it 76%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#412 / 3335 · Drama
Rank in its year
#17 / 67 · 1988
Rank among its director's films
#2 / 13 · Barry Levinson

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

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 Angeles. The brothers' cross-country trip ends up changing both their lives. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

Rain Man is a 1988 American drama directed by Barry Levinson. Tom Cruise stars as Charlie Babbitt, a self-centered, fast-talking Los Angeles car dealer who discovers, upon his father's death, that his $3 million inheritance has been left to an institution caring for his older brother Raymond, played by Dustin Hoffman, an autistic savant whose existence Charlie never knew about. Charlie essentially kidnaps Raymond from the institution and drives him cross-country to Los Angeles, intending to negotiate custody as leverage for the money.

During their road trip, Charlie's resentment gives way to genuine affection as he discovers Raymond's extraordinary memory, his rigid routines, and the brother he never had. Dustin Hoffman's performance as Raymond — meticulous, repetitive, simultaneously brilliant and helpless — won the Academy Award for Best Actor and became the most famous portrayal of autism in cinema, profoundly influencing public awareness of the condition for decades. Rain Man won four Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director, and earned $354 million worldwide on a $25 million budget.

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Dustin Hoffman farted for real in the phone booth in Rain Man (1988). It wasn't scripted and he and Tom Cruise's reactions were improvised.
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