couchdr Great movie with great music, visuals, story and acting, one of the best ever.

cinemajesty Movie Review: "Rain Man" (1988)Winning four Academy-Awards on March 29th 1989 including "Best Picture" and "Best Director" in favor for Barry Levinson, who directs Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman as unlikely brothers. One outgoing, extroverted, premium-car-trading as vanity-indulging Charlie and the other introverted, senior mental institution-living, handicapped-by-autism character of Raymond due to developmental disorder in social interaction as communication, when supporting actress Valeria Golino, at age 22, keeps the two brother sticking together, when "Rain Man" turns from a drama into a road-movie with twisting as suspenseful surprises from scene to scene.Director Barry Levinson, at age 45, makes sure to avoid any sentimental moments in an nevertheless emotional storyline written by Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass, directing Tom Cruise into precise beat work in first reception in an already seven-year-spanning career in acting, while the Hollywood star marks one major hit "Top Gun" (1986) directed by Tony Scott (1944-2012) his own at age 25, when Dustin Hoffman creates his own scene-ruling microcosm without much intervention by the director, retrieving his sophisticated insights from over twenty years in acting and seemingly well-researched effort on a birth-giving state of existence.The 125-Minute-Editorial comes along in interweaving scenes of well-designed due to great location choices and authentic costume design, cinematography by John Seale delivers already with the very first shot of sports-cars getting craned through mid-air under composer Hans Zimmer core-striking soundtrack created to let "Rain Man" be an instant classic of modern cinema much to the liking of producing Mark Johnson, who receives the Oscar at the ceremony in its 61st edition, a fulminate rounded industrial recognition, giving to a wonderfully-humane movie open for revisits.Copyright 2018 Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC

Mihai Toma After the death of his father, a young car dealer with a troubled childhood gets shocked by two pieces of information which are received simultaneously. He received next to nothing from his father's fortune and he has a brother who's existence was kept secret all his life. He begins a desperate attempt to convince the lawyers that he deserves half of the fortune by using his autistic brother as exchange but ends up bonding with him, while all the money are put on a distant plan.It's an interesting approach in terms of character and point of view changes which occur suddenly for an introverted person who thought only about himself. Due to the high quality of the two main actors and their execution, we're presented a very interesting and emotional story of an unexpected bond between two very different characters, despite the natural difficulties of one of them. Their adventures are described in great detail but unfortunately the action is pretty static and tends to become repetitive. Although trying hard to induce something different towards the end, the movie's finale is abrupt and predictable.It's a very good movie, especially when talking about acting and characters, but it left me with the impression that they could have done a bit more about the plot, especially when it comes to the final part. I was expecting a masterpiece, just like "A Beautiful Mind" which simply left me breathless, but it wasn't able to raise that high.

ericventura I have to trust Michael Caine on his opinion of Tom Cruise in Rain Man, describing the subtlety and intricacy that Cruise depicted accurately in his role of a brother kindling a relationship with his estranged brother. Cruise deserved the Oscar, but I love Hoffman's performance all the same.In the end, Rain Man is simple perfection. The realism and beauty in the screenplay is amazing. To portray a subtly developing relationship between brothers who have not known each other with such incredible emotion, is a feat that will rarely or never be achieved again. Silence of the Lambs (1991) depicted a perverted relationship between a psychopath and a scared detective, The Godfather (1972) depicted the violent relationships of a mafia family, and Chinatown (1974) depicted the twisted relationships of a screwed-up family, but Rain Man achieved described the brotherly relationship with universal truth and raw emotion. Rarely seen perfection makes an instant classic, but two of the greatest performances of the late century by Cruise and Hoffman only accentuate the relationship. Valeria Galino delivers a fine-tuned performance as the oddly erotic girlfriend who drives the brothers forward in an intensely interesting fashion.There's not much else to say except that the "my main man" scene is done with chilling perfection. The raw emotion gave me the chills and put me on the verge of tears. To evoke such emotion in the characters and the viewers is a monumental task. If any film did it right, this one did.