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Rain Man

1988 · Movie · 128 min

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Scores

  • IMDb8.0/10as of 2026-02-20
  • Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer88%as of 2026-01-11
  • Rotten Tomatoes average7.9/10as of 2021-10-05
  • Metacritic65/100as of 2026-01-11

What it is

Rain Man is a 1988 American road comedy-drama film directed by Barry Levinson and written by Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass. It tells the story of abrasive and selfish wheeler-dealer Charlie Babbitt, who discovers that his estranged father Sanford has died and bequeathed his multimillion-dollar estate to his other son, Raymond, an autistic savant of whose existence Charlie was unaware.

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Genres
Drama / Comedy
Original language
English

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