When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and that his father’s $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives. Motivated by his father’s money, Charlie checks Raymond out of the facility in order to return with him to Los Angeles. The brothers’ cross-country trip ends up changing both their lives.
Well, when I watched this in my childhood, it was very different. Surely, I understood nothing. I remember mostly nothing.
At least, now I know that Rain Man is Raymond. The name of the movie becomes very simple to understand. In my chilhood, I was watching this in another language, and this meaning was completely lost.
If you think about the movie a bit, half the scenes are this weird behaviour of Raymond.
A good movie. With its own issues, being from 80s. Yet, still, it has some good ideas.