- Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC, Import
- Language: English, French
- Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
- Region: (US and Canada This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
- Number of discs: 1
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- Studio: MGM (Warner)
- Release Date: Feb 3 2004
- Run Time: 134 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (70 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B0000YEEGM
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Rain Man is the kind of touching drama that Oscars are made for--and, sure enough, the film took Academy honors for best picture, director, screenplay, and actor (Dustin Hoffman) in 1988. Hoffman plays Raymond, an autistic savant whose late father has left him $3 million in a trust. This gets the attention of his materialistic younger brother, a hot-shot LA car dealer named Charlie (Tom Cruise) who wasn't even aware of Raymond's existence until he read his estranged father's will. Charlie picks up Raymond and takes him on a cross-country journey that becomes a voyage of discovery for Charlie, and, perhaps, for Raymond, too. Rain Man will either captivate you or irritate you (Raymond's sputtering of repetitious phrases is enough to drive anyone crazy), but it is obviously a labor of love for those involved. Hoffman had been attached to the film for many years, as various directors and writers came and went, but his persistence eventually paid off--kind of like Raymond in Las Vegas. Look for director Barry Levinson in a cameo as a psychiatrist near the end of the film. --Jim Emerson
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Rain Man's a Classic!,
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This review is from: Rain Man [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)
First - Amazon ROCKS! Ordered and received within a couple of days! Although I've watched this movie before, I wanted it in my blu-ray library and had decided to only purchase movies I LOVED and would watch repeatedly. Rain Man is one of those movies! What starts out as a scam as the one brother learns he has a Savant brother in an institution that has been awarded all their dad's money from his will, ends up with love and compassion but with a long road in between. Such a touching, funny and educational movie...a must buy!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hoffman is Brilliant and Cruise is also very good (4.5/5),
By falcon "disdressed12" (canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Rain Man (DVD)
i first saw this movie in high school,and recall feeling indifferent
towards it.flash forward several years,and what a difference.this time around,i really liked it.for one,i paid more attention to it.i also liked it because Dustin Hoffman's portrayal of an autistic person was bang on.the reason i say this is because i work with an autistic individual.Hoffman must have done a lot of research for the role.either that,or he's a complete and utter genius.Tom Cruise is also good as the man who finds out he has an autistic brother.Cruise's character(Charlie Babbit)goes from being an ego-centric materialistic and shallow human being,to someone who actually has compassion and doesn't just think of himself.Cruise makes the transformation very credible.i bought every minute of it.the story is fairly original,as far as i know,even today.there are also bits of lite humour sprinkled throughout,which don't detract from the quality of the film at all.for me,rain man is a 4.5/5
2.0 out of 5 stars
Get an Umbrella For Rain Man!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Rain Man (DVD)
I admit that while I wasn't wild about this film and didn't like the music at all, it had an excellent cast. Tom Cruise plays Charlie Babbitt, a rich daddy's boy whose nose is out of joint because he only inherited a weird-looking late 1940s Buick and a rosebush. The lion's share of Babbitt's father's estate was bequeathed to his brother, Raymond, whom Cruise nicknamed "Rain Man" as a young child. At the film's opening, Cruise has virtually no memory of his long-lost older brother. After the will is read and the legal formalities are completed, Cruise drives the weird-looking car up to the residence where Rain Man,played by Dustin Hoffman has lived for many years. The brothers meet by chance when Rain Man comes out of the residence, sees the car and makes long, detailed comments about it. The brothers meet and Cruise and Rain Man, with the residence's hard-wrought blessing embark on a road trip. They converse, in a fashion. Rain Man was an autistic savant. He picked up a box of toothpicks and was able to tell how many were in the box; he had a "feel" for numbers and proved to be an asset at the gaming tables in Las Vegas; he memorized the telephone book; he recited facts by rote; he was a slave to routine and had "melt downs" when he missed a favorite show or shopped in a store other than the K-Mart he had become familiar with. I am sick and tired of stories like "Rain Man" that portray people with autism as autistic savants. That description and accompanying behaviors do not apply to the entire autistic population, but to a minority of people with autism. Get an umbrella to ward off the tired cliches about autism that come raining down from this movie. "Rain Man" has reinforced a stereotype of autism. The term "Rain Man" has become offensive to those with autism. Although this was not a terrible movie and was entertaining, I think it has done more harm than good in creating a better understanding of people who have autism and what it entails.
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