Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) is a New York based car dealer, self centered, utterly selfish and wants to win his life no matter what. Left home at an early stage after severe arguments and regrettable memories with his millionaire father, he returns home after his father’s death expecting a huge chunk out of his fortune. But to him amusement is father just left him an old car along with some other stuff, while the majority of the property and money is left to Raymond (Dustin Hoffman) who is Charlie’s brother that he never knew that existed until now. Furious and disappointed, Charlie wanting to grab what’s inherited to him learns that Raymond is autistic and spent almost his entire life in a mental institute. Overwhelmed by all the things which is recently happening in his life and about to lose his car business due to debt, Charlie hits the road with Raymond. Dealing with Raymond’s challenging behavior; Charlie gets anxious day by day on how he can reach his goals. But unknowingly while spending time with Raymond, he finds a long lost connection of brotherhood and actually starts to feel for Raymond.
‘Rain Man’ is a classic, not just in 80s but in all time movies. In an age where movies were not totally based on how pretty they looked or how well animated with special effects, you will feel what a movie really needs to be while watching it.
Charlie and Raymond both are challenging characters to pull off. Specially Raymond who is mentally challenged and unpredictable, Hoffman portray really well proving that he is one of those actors who knows what character representation is all about. Equally wonderful performance by Tom, who is selfish and greedy you might hate him right from the inception. (My regret is that Tom is not getting any more worthy characters such as this nowadays which he can place his real talents than jumping from one building on to another like a stuntman)
Wonderfully written script with warmness of hearts embedded, ‘Rain Man’ brings in anger, disappointment, love, hope and ambition in to one whole 133 minutes. With wonderful performances of Tom and Hoffman throughout and cleverly build set of characters this is one heartwarming piece of drama that you can lay hands on.
My score 4/5
Genre: Drama
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