He has superb recall, but he shows little emotional expression except when in distress. Raymond has autism and savant syndrome and adheres to strict routines. 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. He inherits only a group of rosebushes and a classic 1949 Buick Roadmaster convertible over which he and his father clashed, while the remainder of the $3 million estate is going to an unnamed trustee. When Charlie learns that his estranged father Sanford Babbitt has died, he and his girlfriend Susanna travel to Cincinnati in order to settle the estate. Charlie directs an employee to lie to the buyers while he stalls his creditor. He needs to deliver the cars to impatient buyers, who have already made down payments, in order to repay the loan he took out to buy them, but the EPA is holding the cars at the port because they have failed emissions tests. Ĭollectibles dealer Charlie Babbitt is in the middle of importing four grey market Lamborghinis to Los Angeles for resale. It was also the last MGM title to be nominated for Best Picture until Licorice Pizza (2021) 33 years later. Īs of 2022, Rain Man is the first and only film to win both the Berlin's highest achievement and Academy Award for Best Picture at the same year. in the United States on December 16, 1988, to critical and commercial success, grossing $354.8 million, on a $25 million budget, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1988, and received a leading eight nominations at the 61st Academy Awards, winning four (more than any other film nominated) Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (for Hoffman), and Best Original Screenplay. It was theatrically released by MGM/UA Communications Co. Rain Man premiered at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Golden Bear, the festival's highest prize. 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 Bill (1981), an earlier film that Morrow wrote. Valeria Golino also stars as Charlie's girlfriend Susanna. Charlie is left with only his father's beloved vintage car and rosebushes. It tells the story of abrasive, selfish young wheeler-dealer Charlie Babbitt ( Tom Cruise), 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. Rain Man is a 1988 American road drama film directed by Barry Levinson and written by Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass.
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