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1988 film directed by Barry Levinson

Pelting Man
Rain Man poster.jpg

Theatrical release poster by John Alvin
Directed by Barry Levinson
Screenplay by
  • Barry Morrow
  • Ronald Bass
Story past Barry Morrow
Produced by Mark Johnson
Starring
  • Dustin Hoffman
  • Tom Cruise
  • Valeria Golino
Cinematography John Seale
Edited by Stu Linder
Music past Hans Zimmer

Product
companies
  • United Artists
  • Guber-Peters Company[1]
  • Star Partners II, Ltd.[1]
Distributed past MGM/UA Communications Co.

Release date
  • December 16, 1988 (1988-12-16)

Running time

 134 minutes[i]
State United States[i]
Language English
Budget $25million[2]
Box office $354.8million[2]

Rain Man is a 1988 American road one-act-drama flick directed past Barry Levinson, from a screenplay written by Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass. It tells the story of abrasive, selfish immature wheeler-dealer Charlie Babbitt (Tom Prowl), 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 existence Charlie was unaware. Charlie is left with simply his male parent's beloved vintage motorcar and rosebushes. Valeria Golino likewise stars as Charlie's girlfriend Susanna. Morrow created the character of Raymond after meeting Kim Peek, a real-life savant; his characterization was based on both Peek and Bill Sackter, a good friend of Morrow who was the subject of Pecker (1981), an earlier film that Morrow wrote.[3]

Rain Man premiered at the 39th Berlin International Picture show Festival, where it won the Gilded Bear, the festival's highest prize.[4] It was theatrically released by MGM/UA Communications Co. in the United States on Dec 16, 1988, to critical and commercial success, grossing $354.eightmillion, on a $25 million budget, becoming the highest-grossing pic of 1988, and received a leading eight nominations at the 61st Academy Awards, winning four (more than than any other moving picture nominated); Best Picture, Best Director, Best Thespian (for Hoffman), and Best Original Screenplay.[v]

As of 2022[update], Pelting Man is the offset and only moving picture to win both Gilt Bear and Academy Award for Best Film. It was also the terminal MGM championship to be nominated for Best Moving-picture show until Licorice Pizza (2021) 33 years later on.[6]

Plot [edit]

Collectibles dealer Charlie Babbitt is in the heart of importing four grayness market Lamborghinis to Los Angeles for resale. He needs to deliver the cars to impatient buyers, who have already made downward payments, in guild to repay the loan he took out to buy them, only the EPA is property the cars at the port because they have failed emissions tests. Charlie directs an employee to lie to the buyers while he stalls his creditor.

When Charlie learns that his estranged male parent Sanford Babbitt has died, he and his girlfriend Susanna travel to Cincinnati in order to settle the manor. He inherits but a grouping of rosebushes and a classic 1949 Buick Roadmaster convertible over which he and his begetter clashed, while the rest of the $three1000000 manor is going to an unnamed trustee. He learns that the money is being directed to a local mental institution, where he meets his elder brother, Raymond, of whom he was unaware his whole life.

Raymond has autism and savant syndrome and adheres to strict routines. He has superb recollect, but he shows lilliputian emotional expression except when in distress. Charlie spirits Raymond out of the mental institution and into a hotel for the night. Susanna becomes upset with the way Charlie treats his brother and leaves him. Charlie asks Raymond's doctor, Dr. Gerald Bruner, for one-half the manor in exchange for Raymond's return, simply Bruner refuses. Charlie decides to effort to proceeds custody of his brother in guild to get command of the money.

Afterwards Raymond refuses to fly to Los Angeles, he and Charlie resort to driving in that location instead. They make slow progress because Raymond insists on sticking to his routines, which include watching The People'south Court on television receiver every twenty-four hours, getting to bed past 11:00 PM, and refusing to travel when it rains. He also objects to traveling on the interstate after they meet a car blow. During the course of the journey, Charlie learns more than about Raymond, including his ability to instantly perform complex calculations and count hundreds of objects at once, far across the normal range of homo subitizing abilities. He also realizes Raymond had lived with the family unit as a child and was the "Rain Human being", a comforting effigy that Charlie had falsely remembered as an imaginary friend. Raymond had saved an infant Charlie from being scalded by hot bathwater one day, only their father had blamed him for nearly injuring Charlie and committed him to the institution, as he was unable to speak upward for himself and correct the misunderstanding.

Charlie's creditor repossesses the Lamborghinis, forcing him to refund his buyers' down payments and leaving him deeply in debt. Having passed Las Vegas, he and Raymond return to Caesars Palace on the Strip and devise a programme to win the needed money by playing blackjack and counting cards. Though the casino bosses obtain videotape prove of the scheme and inquire them to leave, Charlie successfully wins $86,000 to cover his debts and reconciles with Susanna, who has rejoined the brothers in Las Vegas.

Returning to Los Angeles, Charlie meets with Bruner, who offers him $250,000 to walk away from Raymond. Charlie refuses and says that he is no longer upset about being cutting out of his father's will, but he wants to have a relationship with his brother. At a meeting with a courtroom-appointed psychiatrist, Raymond proves unable to determine for himself what he wants. Charlie stops the questioning and tells Raymond he is happy to have him as his brother. As Raymond and Bruner board a train to return to the establishment, Charlie promises to visit in two weeks.

Cast [edit]

  • Dustin Hoffman as Raymond "Ray" Babbitt, an autistic savant who is Charlie'due south elder blood brother
  • Tom Cruise every bit Charles "Charlie" Babbitt
  • Valeria Golino as Susanna
  • Jerry Molen as Dr. Gerald Bruner
  • Ralph Seymour as Lenny
  • Michael D. Roberts as Vern
  • Bonnie Hunt every bit Sally Dibbs
  • Beth Grant equally Mother at Farm House
  • Lucinda Jenney as Iris
  • Barry Levinson as Doctor

Production [edit]

A now-abased gas station and full general store in Cogar, Oklahoma was used in a scene from the pic. The Colvert sign has since been removed, revealing the full name of the concern.

Roger Birnbaum was the first studio executive to give the motion-picture show a green light; he did so immediately afterwards Barry Morrow pitched the story. Birnbaum received "special thanks" in the film's credits.[ citation needed ]

Existent-life brothers Dennis Quaid and Randy Quaid were considered for the roles of Raymond Babbitt and Charles Babbitt.[7] Agents at CAA sent the script to Dustin Hoffman and Bill Murray, envisioning Murray in the championship office and Hoffman in the role somewhen portrayed by Cruise.[3] Martin Brest, Steven Spielberg and Sydney Pollack were directors besides involved in the moving-picture show.[viii] Mickey Rourke was too offered a role only he turned it downwardly.[nine]

Principal photography included nine weeks of filming on location in Cincinnati and throughout northern Kentucky.[ten] Other portions were shot in the desert near Palm Springs, California.[eleven] : 168–71

Almost all of the principal photography occurred during the 1988 Writers Club of America strike; one key scene that was afflicted by the lack of writers was the film's final scene.[three] Bass delivered his terminal rough cut of the script only hours before the strike started and spent no time on the fix.[eight]

Release [edit]

Box office [edit]

Rain Homo debuted on Dec sixteen, 1988, and was the second highest-grossing motion-picture show at the weekend box office (backside Twins), with $7million.[12] It reached the first spot on the Dec 30 – Jan ii weekend, finishing 1988 with $42meg.[13] The film would cease up equally the highest-grossing U.S. film of 1988 past earning over $172million. The moving picture grossed over $354meg worldwide.[2]

Critical reception [edit]

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes the picture holds an blessing rating of 89% based on 79 reviews, with an average rating of 7.nine/10. The website's critical consensus states: "This route-trip movie most an autistic savant and his callow blood brother is far from seamless, but Barry Levinson's management is impressive, and strong performances from Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman add to its entreatment."[14] Metacritic assigned the film a weighted boilerplate score of 65 out of 100 based on eighteen critic, indicating "by and large favorable reviews".[xv] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the flick an average class of "A" on an A+ to F scale.[16]

Vincent Canby of The New York Times chosen Rain Man a "becomingly modest, decently thought-out, sometimes funny moving picture"; Hoffman's performance was a "display of sustained virtuosity . . . [which] makes no lasting connections with the emotions. Its end effect depends largely on one'south susceptibility to the sight of an actor acting nonstop and extremely well, just to no particularly urgent dramatic purpose."[17] Canby considered the "film's truthful central character" to be "the confused, economically and emotionally desperate Charlie, beautifully played by Mr. Prowl."[17]

Amy Dawes of Variety wrote that "one of the yr'south most intriguing film premises ... is given uneven, slightly off-target handling"; she chosen the route scenes "hastily, loosely written, with much extraneous screen time," but admired the last tertiary of the film, calling it a delineation of "two very isolated beings" who "find a common history and deep attachment."[xviii]

One of the film's harshest reviews came from New Yorker mag critic Pauline Kael, who said, "Everything in this movie is fudged ever so humanistically, in a perfunctory, low-pressure manner. And the picture has its effectiveness: people are crying at it. Of grade they're crying at it—it's a piece of wet kitsch."[19]

Roger Ebert gave the film 3 and a half stars out of four. He wrote, "Hoffman proves over again that he almost seems to thrive on impossible interim challenges...I felt a certain honey for Raymond, the Hoffman character. I don't know quite how Hoffman got me to do it."[20] Gene Siskel also gave the film three and a half stars out of iv, singling out Cruise for praise, "The strength of the film is really that of Cruise'due south performance...the combination of two superior performances makes the moving picture worth watching."[21]

Rain Man was placed on 39 critics' "10 all-time" lists in 1988, based on a poll of the nation'southward top 100 critics.[22]

Accolades [edit]

The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:

  • 2006: AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers - #63

In popular culture [edit]

Rain Man 's portrayal of the main character's condition has been seen as creating the erroneous media stereotype that people on the autism spectrum typically have savant skills, and references to Rain Man, in particular Dustin Hoffman's functioning, have become a pop shorthand for autism and savantism. Conversely, Rain Man has likewise been seen every bit dispelling a number of other misconceptions about autism, and improving public awareness of the failure of many agencies to accommodate autistic people and make use of the abilities they practise have, regardless of whether they have savant skills or not.[34]

The film is also known for popularizing the misconception that carte counting is illegal in the The states.[35]

The Babbitt brothers appear in The Simpsons season 5 episode $pringfield. The film is mentioned in numerous other films such equally Miss Congeniality (2000), 21 (2008), Tropic Thunder (2008) (in which Tom Cruise made an appearance), The Hangover (2009), Escape Room (2019), and also in the television serial Breaking Bad.

Raymond Babbitt was caricatured as a rain cloud in the blithe episode of The Nanny, "Oy to the World". During the episode, Fran fixes upward CC the Abominable Babcock with the Rain Man. He is portrayed equally a cloud of rain mumbling most weather patterns and beingness an excellent driver.

Qantas and airline controversy [edit]

During June 1989, at least 15 major airlines showed edited versions of Pelting Man that omitted a scene involving Raymond'southward refusal to fly, mentioning the crashes of American Airlines Flight 625, Delta Air Lines Flight 191, and Continental Airlines Flight 1713, except on Australia-based Qantas. Those criticizing this decision included moving picture manager Barry Levinson, co-screenwriter Ronald Bass, and George Kirgo (at the time the President of the Writers Social club of America, W). "I think information technology's a key scene to the entire movie," Levinson said in a telephone interview. "That'southward why information technology's in there. Information technology launches their entire odyssey across land – because they couldn't fly." While some of those airlines cited as justification fugitive having airplane passengers experience uncomfortable in sympathy with Raymond during the in-flight amusement, the scene was shown intact on flights of Qantas, and commentators noted that Raymond mentions it as the only airline whose planes have "never crashed".[36] [37] The film is credited with introducing Qantas' safety record to U.S. consumers.[38] [39]

The Buick convertible [edit]

Two 1949 Roadmaster convertibles were used in the filming, ane of which had its rear interruption stiffened to comport the additional load of camera equipment and a cameraman. After filming completed, the unmodified car was acquired by Hoffman, who had it restored, added it to his drove and kept it for 34 years. Hemmings Motor News reported that this automobile was auctioned in January 2022 by Bonhams at Scottsdale, Arizona and sold for $335,000.[forty] The camera-carrying motorcar was similarly acquired by Barry Levinson, who a few years later had it restored by Wayne Carini of the Chasing Classic Cars tv set series.

See also [edit]

  • Savant syndrome

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  1. ^ Tied with Martin Landau for Tucker: The Man and His Dream and Dean Stockwell for Married to the Mob.

External links [edit]

  • Rain Man at the American Film Found Itemize
  • Rain Man at IMDb
  • Rain Human being at AllMovie
  • Rain Man at the TCM Movie Database
  • Rain Human at Box Part Mojo
  • Pelting Human at Rotten Tomatoes
  • Rain Man at Metacritic Edit this at Wikidata

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_Man

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