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Summary: great
Review: i cried so hard at the end. i just loved this movie. Dustin Hoffman rules.
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Summary: Not Like The Real Rain Man, Yet Still Outstanding
Review: Although the real rain man (Kim Peek) has overcome the severity of his autism, the character Raymond Babbit hasn't. Yet, still, this is a great movie. I just can't watch Raymond's scenes without smiling. For those with an interest in mental disabilities, I recomend this. For those who just want a good movie, I recommend this.
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Summary: "He should work for NASA or something like that."
Review: Barry Levinson's "Rain Man" is a film with a gimmick. It is gimmick that is used to differentiate this film from the number of films that had previously dealt with the same material. At its core, this is a story about family secrets, personal discovery, and reconciliation. Only this time around, one of the members of the family is autistic. After his father passes away, Charlie Babbitt's (Tom Cruise) life changes forever when he discovers he has brother he never knew he had. Compounding his surprise is the fact that Raymond (Dustin Hoffman) is an autistic who can perform amazing mental feats with little effort. However, Raymond is unable to interact socially with others and is continuously thwarted by the world outside upon leaving his institution. After much soul-searching, Charlie must decide if his brother's interests would be better served staying at home with him or back at the institution with its comfortable daily routine. The two performances at the heart of "Rain Man" are flawless. Cruise is great as the fast-talking brother whose cold heart thaws as he spends more time with his brother and Hoffman's Academy Award for his performance is testament enough to its quality. However, while watching "Rain Man," you cannot shake the feeling that the events unfolding on-screen are just an excuse to display Raymond's talents. All of the scenes from his recitation of baseball statistics to his ability to count toothpicks on the floor to his success in Las Vegas feel like gimmicky set pieces. Little drama is produced the rest of the time as the scenes without Raymond are just filler to bridge the gaps between his previous spotlight moment and his next one. In the end there is surprisingly little in the film to sustain the viewer's interest. Record "Rain Man" as just another byproduct of the creative malaise that seemed to be running through Hollywood in the late-Eighties.
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Summary: 'a lot' is two words. the thesaurus forgot to tell you that?
Review: My younger brother is an autistic savant and this movie was a near-perfect portrayal of autism. anyone who criticizes dustin hoffman's performance obviously doesn't have any experience with autistic people.
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Summary: Rain man man man man man.
Review: Dustin Hoffman plays an idiot savant, which he's pretty good at. I knew someone in high school who was autistic and very learned at baseball and seinfeld, and Hoffman's character was very similarly acted and written (although much less aware of the reality we see around him). Tom Cruise, whom I hold nothing against and don't consider a particularly bad actor, does a good job of being Tom Cruise, which can be a pretty bad thing in a movie. Hoffman's role also suffers, albiet slightly less, from image recognition. I watched both moonlight mile and the graduate in close proximity with rain man, both of which offer better and more subtle examples of his deftness at bumbling half-idiot characters. Not that noticing an actor's actorness is neccessarily always a bad thing in movies, just in this case it rubbed me the wrong way. As far as the movie itself goes, it has occasional laughs, but all of them rely most heavily on autistic behaviours and 80s radio station advertisments, which i guess makes it a sort of modern slapstick movie. The story is one you've seen a thousand times, and which, for me, has never been very enjoyable, but i suppose if you are attracted to this kind of story, you could tack on an extra star, which is to say that the whole package is average for its genre. I dislike the word 'overrated' because i don't want to be opining on someone else's opinion, even though i don't have a lot of respect for the academy awards, but, suffice to say alot of people like and value this movie, while i don't. You could make a case for this movie's possible criticisms of society's materialism, but, if they do exist, they're, at most, a cheap plastic veneer on a insubstantial base. 2 stars because: it's not the worst movie i've ever seen, but it's something that made me wish i had saved the rental fee for something else. if, unlike me, you are attracted to this type of movie, i would say that, because it's not poorly directed, terribly written, and the acting isn't too hammy, it's not unworth a 4 dollar rental fee.
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Summary: accurate portrayal of autism
Review: As the dad of an autistic child, I can say Dustin Hoffman's performance of an autistic person rings remarkably true. If Tom Cruise lived with his brother all along he wouldn't have to ask the exasperated question "What difference does it make?" He would know the slightest change in routine for an autistic person can be extremely unsettling with unpredictable consequences.
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Summary: Best Moive of all time
Review: This is one of my favorite moives of all time. I can't count how many times I have watch this moive over and over and I never get sick of it. If you haven't see this moive then you should!!
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Summary: learning to get over yourself
Review: Cruise plays a typical character for himself -- Charlie Babbitt, a young smarmy self-involved Type-A personality in Los Angeles. His estranged dad has just died, and he has inherited a 1948 vintage convertible (the source of his conflict with his dad) and his prize roses. A mysterious benefactor has inherited $3 million. Charlie is UPSET about this and goes to Ohio looking for this person so he can claim his rightful share. He discovers he has a much-older autistic brother Raymond (Dustin Hoffman in his second Oscar-winning role), whom he never knew existed but apparently had such a good relationship with their father that he drove the convertible on his visits. This is of little to no concern to Charlie, who essentially kidnaps Raymond from the sanotorium. His girlfriend Susan (Valeria Golino) is finally fed up with Charlie's selfishness when she sees how he treats Ray and storms off. Charlie has to get back to LA from Ohio but Ray will not fly on a plane, so they have to drive the convertible. During this road trip, Charlie discovers Ray has amazing mathematical powers and uses them to his advantage counting cards in Las Vegas. But he also starts to learn to care about Ray, as Ray reveals bits and pieces of his life and how he came to be separated from their family unit. Charlie has to face his selfish past when he is fighting for custody of Ray,ond, and it is revealed that his past actions make him less than ideal to care for Ray. It is touching and heartrending with a less-than-perfect ending, but Charlie finally gains the ability to care about someone else.
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Summary: Unconditional Love
Review: Charlie (Tom Cruise) and Raymond (Dustin Hoffman) do an excellent job of acting in this movie. Raymond, portraying an autistic, inherits three million dollars from his deceased father. Charlie, his younger brother, tries to trick him out of the money. There are many comical scenes in this movie as Charlie tries to figure out his autistic brother's day to day activities and restrictions. Working with someone who is autistic takes a lot of patience. Even though Charlie loses his patience's a lot with Raymond, they learn very valuable lessons of life. Together they travel across America, teaching each other lessons only brothers can appreciate learning from each other. This is a must see movie that portrays the many trials and tribulations that are solved by two brother's unconditional love.
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Summary: Still a favorite
Review: I was really young when I first saw this movie, but it made me feel compassion for people with special needs around me, and made me a lot some sensitive to the subject of handicaps.
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