RAIN MAN

On Sunday 24^th at 4pm; the road comedy-drama film RAIN MAN (2hrs) starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise.

Rain Man competed at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the highest prize: the Golden Bear. It was nominated for eight Oscars, winning four. Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (for Hoffman), and Best Original Screenplay. Rain Man is the only film to win both the Berlin International Film Festival’s highest award and the Academy Award for Best Picture in the same year.

Charlie is a hustler. He’s been on his own long enough to know how to work people and situations. He finds that the father who threw him out as a teen ager has died. He’s left him a now antique convertible and something more important, a previously unknown brother, Raymond. Raymond is autistic but is able to calculate complicated mathematical problems in his head with great speed and accuracy. Their father has left his fortune to Raymond who doesn’t even understand what money is for. Charlie is enraged by what has happened and by his father keeping Raymond’s existence from him for his entire life. He kidnaps Raymond from his residential home but then finds that Raymond will only fly Qantas. The two begin a long road trip that will lead them to an understanding of each other.

“Dustin Hoffman’s performance as Raymond Babbitt is, bar none,

the best acting performance I have ever seen. I have never seen an actor get so deeply immersed in a character than Hoffman does in this film. He is excellent here, and he deserved nothing less than the Oscar he won for it. As for Tom Cruise, his performance as Raymond’s childish and hotheaded brother is also worthy of note. To watch his character slowly shed his ignorance throughout the course of the film was indeed a delight. If you have not seen it, don’t deprive yourself any longer.”

“I have seen this movie probably 7 or 8 times in the past three years, wrote a paper about it for my college film class last semester, and basically regard it as my favorite movie of all time. Where to begin with the praise for this movie? Let’s start with the acting. Dustin Hoffman is my favourite actor and has been for a while. I’d watch him in any role. I was amazed at the way he was able to pull off this role. I’ve never seen a more deserved Oscar win. The vacant stare, the monotone voice, the screaming, it was unbelievable. Each time I watch it I am floored by his talent. Tom Cruise is also good, the villain of the story who undergoes such a subtle change that it’s almost not visible until nearly the end. He is, however, perfectly suited for the flashy, egotistical character of Charlie, and I think he did a great job. The directing was unobtrusive and beautiful, for the most part just letting the action unfold, which is exactly the way it should have been done. It’s a feel-good movie that does that and more, and I think nothing I’ve seen in the movies is as touching as the scene in the motel where Charlie discovers who “Rain Man” really is.” IMDb reviewers