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Summary: One the best movies out there
Review: Rain Man is such a well acted movie with a great story and great ending and superior acting. This movie is such a classic and will live on for years as one the best movies. Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman give there greatest performances in there careers. It is a very inspiring great movie and you can not find a movie like this around much anymore. Rain Man deserves 10 stars!
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Summary: Dustin Hoffman is the man!
Review: This movie is great for restoring faith in human beings. Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise each give the performance of a lifetime to generate a whale of a movie. This is more than entertainment, this is art!!!!
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Summary: hoffman is amazing
Review: Great acting, great story. One of my favorites
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Summary: I'm an excellent driver
Review: Classic - if you haven't seen this movie, you need to drive to the video store tonight and rent it. Absolutely wonderful acting, great storyline, fantastic plot. Dustin Hoffman at his best. Tom Cruise is only mildly annoying as well. Great flick!!
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Summary: Great Movie
Review: This movie is a winner. I think it is one of the greatest movies of all time. If you like comody or drama you will love this.
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Summary: Definitely Earned Its Best-Picture Oscar!!
Review: Good story. Excellent character development. Nice photography. First-rate music. And a brilliantly controlled performance by Dustin Hoffman. ..... This is "Rain Man", 1988's Best Picture Winner. And rightly so. This script plays out very nicely, as we are drawn into the world of Raymond and Charlie Babbitt and their cross-country adventure. This is a film to watch and enjoy over and over again! It MUST be viewed more than just once! And remember to fly Qantas whenever possible.....because "Qantas never crashed." :)
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Summary: Rain Man
Review: this is one of the best movies ive seen. it shows how the most different types of human beings can come together. dustin hoffman gives an extrodinary acting roll in this film. i recomend this movie to everyone
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Summary: 1-man show.
Review: Entertaining story of a guy who really likes *People's Court*. Dustin Hoffman is the autistic savant; Tom Cruise is his jerk brother who unscrupulously runs a high-end auto dealership. Needing funds to make up a shortfall, he attempts to weasel Hoffman out of a considerable inheritance. They go on a long road-trip because Hoffman is afraid to fly (he can quote crash statistics; a very handy source of info, there). They bond; Cruise's character improves, blah blah. Interestingly, though, Hoffman's character doesn't improve -- I feel this is true to life as well as being artistically true. *Rain Man* IS overrated ("Best Picture"? -- Please) but it's not a waste of your time.
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Summary: Rain Man - Autistic Man, Artistic Film
Review: What can you say about a movie that deals with a subject not usually tackled? Of course, there was 1968's CHARLY, starring Cliff Robertson (Best Actor Oscar-winner) and Claire Bloom, that gave us an in-depth look at "special" people, mostly especially, autistic people.Dustin Hoffman is Raymond Babbitt, the titular character. Tom Cruise, in an excellent role that even impressed me (and I'm not at all a Tom Cruise fan) plays his conniving, selfish brother Charlie Babbitt. Thrown in the mix with them is the beautiful Italian actress Valeria Golino, who plays Cruise's compassionate girlfriend. You have to love this film! Why? Because of two men, Cruise and Best Actor winner Hoffman (winning his second award since 1979's KRAMER VS. KRAMER). They are what pulls us into their world, and keeps us there until the very end when Charlie sadly puts Raymond on a train back to the sanitorium. (I admit, as a man, I cried repeatedly during this scene -- and still do!) It begins with the death of the brothers' father, a rich man who was estranged from Charlie and never even spoken about Raymond. When he dies, Charlie is given a beautiful 1940s convertible (and his father's prize roses). Upon hearing that this brother of his has inherited their father's fortune, Charlie decides to find him and eventually "kidnap" him. His greedy selfishness is obvious from the first scene of the film. Eventually, his girlfriend has enough of this and leaves him alone with his brother. (She eventually comes back to him in Las Vegas.) During their cross-country journey, Charlie realizes how important having a brother is, citing that he always felt alone and that how happy he was to know that Raymond was his brother. Beautiful and human, yet not too sappy and saccharine! Even though Charlie proves to have an alterior motive for Raymond, you can't help but like the character (since he does provide some laughs). Cruise eventually plays the same character in 1996's JERRY MAGUIRE. And, of course, there's Hoffman! Virtually stealing every scene he is in. From his quips: "I'm an excellent driver" to his Abbott & Costello "Who's on First" bit, you can't help but fall in love with this silly, but poignant character. What also clinches the tears for me, other than the departing scene on the train, are the end credits. Yes, that's right, the credits! Here's why. Even notice that Raymond is taking pictures? If you do, then you should know that those are the pictures taken in the end credits. We're actually SEEING what Raymond is seeing; that, in itself, is heartbreaking! Think about that! And to the director, Barry Levinson, who would soon give us 1990's DINER and 1991's Oscar-nominated BUGSY, for showing us that even a family/buddy/road movie like this doesn't have to be an epic to win Best Picture. My hat's off to Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass for creating such a wonderful script! Bravo, gentlemen, you deserve it! RAIN MAN was the winner of 4 Academy Awards in 1988 for: Best Picture - Mark Gordon, producer; Best Director - Barry Levinson; Best Actor - Dustin Hoffman; and Best Original Screenplay - Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow. RUNNING TIME: 2 HOURS, 14 MINUTES.
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Summary: Aged bit still very strong
Review: The film has aged. When it came out it was a revelation about « retards », mentally handicapped people. They were shown has human and having qualities and potentialities by far not exploited by their being closed up in some institutions. This particular Raymond was committed because he must have burned his baby brother in his bath. His family got rid of him, his father got him pent up. But the two brothers finally meet, thanks to an antique car. Though at this level the film is no longer a revelation, it shows how prolonged human contact opens up the mind of the autistic man and little by little brings him to some discovery of love, not only care, of fun, not only entertainment, of autonomy too, not only personal activities under heavy surveillance. Though he will have to go back to the institution, his brother will keep the possibility to meet him and take him under his responsibility regularly. This is still somewhat behind our present time, but it was a tremendous revolution in our way of thinking nearly twenty years ago. The motivations of the brother seem to be ambiguous : money at first (the inheritance from the dead father that was escaping him), then money again due to Raymond's ability at counting cards in a casino and being a real hit at the card table, and finally more human brotherly love, but only finally, and after he has made so much money in Las Vegas that he does not need a deal about the inheritance any more. Two great actors Tom Cruise as the brother and Dustin Hoffman as the autistic son. The choice was very much criticized at the time, and today it is unbearable. A real autistic actor should have been used, even if Hoffman does a marvelous job at the part, but he is not a real one, and his facial expression will never be that of a real autistic person. To be watched for the historical value of the film both on the subject of integrating autistic people in real society, and on the possibility that is appearing more and more to integrate « handicapped » actors in films. They can really be actors if they are properly directed. Ask the company L'Oiseau Mouche in Roubaix, France, funded by the European Community, for one instance. Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, Paris Universities II and IX.
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