Rain Man

Theatrical - Wide 1988-12-12

Cast Dustin Hoffman Tom Cruise Valeria Golino Lucinda Jenney Bonnie Hunt
Directed by Barry Levinson
Written by Ronald Bass Barry Morrow

Box Office Gross: $354,825,435

Running Time: 134 minutes

Language: English

Production Company: United Artists, Star Partners II, The Guber-Peters Company

Genres: Drama

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When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and that his father’s $3 million fortune is being left to the... See more mental institution in which Raymond lives. Motivated by his father’s money, Charlie checks Raymond out of the facility in order to return with him to Los Angeles. The brothers’ cross-country trip ends up changing both their lives.

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