Rain man [videorecording] / Metro Goldwyn Mayer ; United Artists presents a Guber-Peters Company production ; a Barry Levinson film ; story by Barry Morrow ; screenplay by Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow ; produced by Mark Johnson ; directed by Barry Levinson.
Originally produced as an American motion picture in 1988. Special features: Original featurette (7 min.); Deleted scene (2 min.); Photo gallery [slide show]; Original theatrical trailer (2 min.); Audio commentary by director Barry Levinson [optional feature]; Audio commentary by co-writer Barry Morrow[optional feature]; Audio commentary by co-writer Ronald Bass [optional feature]; Other great MGM releases [trailers] (4 min.); Other great Academy Award winners [text feature]; More great MGM releases [text feature] Dustin Hoffman (Raymond Babbitt), Tom Cruise (Charlie Babbitt), Valeria Golino (Susanna), Jerry Molen (Dr. Bruner), Bonnie Hunt (Sally Dibbs)
Contents:
Main title/Car delivery -- Fighting off the sharks -- "Let's talk!" -- Charity to most -- "I got the rosebushes" -- "Raymond is your brother" -- Strictly routine -- Back in two hours -- "Definitely not my room" -- Whose money is it? -- Pancake Tuesday -- Toothpicks -- "Qantas never crashed" -- Lots of traffic -- Rained in -- "I'm an excellent driver" -- Walk, don't walk -- "He's artistic?" -- "Four minutes to Wapner" -- Who is on first -- Day Rain Man left -- Dryer TV/Out of business -- Cardsharp savant -- Sparkly Iris -- Dancing for high rollers -- Substitute date -- Driving home -- Not the money anymore -- It has to stop -- Questions for Raymond -- On the shiny train -- End credits.
Summary:
Charlie Babbitt is a would-be Trump, selling high-end import automobiles with dubious pedigrees in L.A. He's also a self-absorbed, fast-talking shark--materialistic, cold, all business. When he learns his wealthy, estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati to claim his share of the estate: his Dad's prize roses and a 1949 Buick Roadmaster. The 3 million dollar estate has been left in trust for Raymond, a brother he never knew he had. Determined to get "his half" of the money, Charlie steals Raymond from the institution that is his home, in order to force the trustee to give him half to avoid a custody fight. Raymond is autistic, and a mass of idiosyncratic routines and nervous habits: he won't go out in the rain; he recites "Who's on first?" when he's upset; he flatly refuses to fly. Accompanied by Charlie's long suffering girlfriend Susanna, Charlie and Raymond begin the cross-country journey to Los Angeles. What begins as an unsentimental journey for the Babbitt brothers becomes much more than the distance between two places.
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