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Rain Man
Directed by Barry Levinson
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'… From TMDB
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Rain Man is a 1988 drama film, directed by Barry Levinson, starring Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise and Valeria Golino.
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60 of 205 · most liked first"Nobody in the 80s had autism." My brother in Christ, Rain Man came out in 1988. Do you think they invented autism for the movie?
neutral · AI labelView post →Without saying Rain Man, fav Tom Cruise Film?
neutral · AI labelView post →Barry Levinson celebrates birthday, 4/6/1942. Writer 📑, Director 🎬, Producer 📽 From box office hits like GOOD MORNING, VIETNAM to prestige 📺 like HOMICIDE & DOPESICK, stellar resume! 6 Oscar noms: 79 And Justice For All 📑 82 Diner 📑 88 Rain Man 🎬 (win) 90 Avalon 📑 (❤️ fave) 91 Bugsy 🎬📽 #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →WINNERS: January 2026 WILDsound ALTERNATIVE Film Festival wildsoundfestivalreview.com/2026/01/29/w... Best Feature Film: The Box Trap Short Film: Once More, Like Rain Man Visual Design: Street Muse Experimental Film: The Duet Direction: Bartogay Lake Performances: The Last Rehearsal #wildsound
neutral · AI labelView post →Challenging #Hollywood’s Autism Stereotypes: From Rain Man to Reality www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS__... #Screenwriter/#Actress Bella Martinez chats with Matthew Toffolo about her award winning film and how Hollywood wrote a one-side version of what autism is. #wildsound #autism
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching THE GRADUATE and this man is autistic as hell. Movie is like a Rain Man prequel
neutral · AI labelView post →Podcast: EP. 1632: Writer/Actor Bella Martinez (Once More, Like Rain Man) www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFph... Terrific conversation with screenwriter/actress Bella Martinez, chatting about her multiple award winning film Beautifully directed by Sue Ann Pien, and starring Matt Jones & Joe Mantegna
neutral · AI labelView post →The movie Rain Man has some amazing landscape photography in it. One of the best road movies? Also you couldn’t write an ending like that today!
positive · AI labelView post →I tell people that we didn't have autism UNTIL Rain Man. It's a bit hyperbolic, but I never heard the term until that movie and it came out when I was in Jr. High.
neutral · AI labelView post →The correct answer was Barry Levinson. He directed Rain Man and voiced a character in Bee Movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Rain Man came out in 1988 The character Raymond was supposed to be in his 40s in the movie, meaning he would be 70s now A 40 year old movie featured an adult with autism Autism was in the cultural zeitgeist bank then 40 years ago
neutral · AI labelView post →I remember kids being ADHD, the movie Rain Man, and Oprah doing a special on autistic kids, so...checkmate "Bobby". But if you didn't hear about them, they certainly must not exist. Fucking RFK, jr doesn't know the differnece between anecdotal and empirical...
neutral · AI labelView post →#JuneMovieChallenge Day 27: Road trip movie Rain Man (1988)
neutral · AI labelView post →We know the power of stories is huge, and media representations can affect people in ways they don't even understand. When the movie Rain Man came out in the 1980s it completely changed the landscape for autism awareness—if not understanding of autism. 15/
neutral · AI labelView post →Wow. Rain Man would have been a different movie if Autism made him get his cock out all the time
neutral · AI labelView post →I was a little underwhelmed by #TheAmateur, also known as “Rain Man on Fire.” The sort of pulpy movie they used to make ten times a year, but twenty minutes too long and filmed with actors who only have a few days of availability. Charmingly goofy at moments, though.
neutral · AI labelView post →Today I was teaching about autism and I used Rain Man as an example. They all looked at me like 'huh?' and it turns ou they've never seen the movie! I suggested that they correct that. #FeltOld
positive · AI labelView post →Recommended movies showing tonight on TCM: Driving Miss Daisy (1989) @ 8:00pm. Rain Man (1988) @ 10:00pm. Bullitt (1968) @ 12:30am. Grand Prix (1966) @ 2:30am. Thank you TCM! #TurnerClassicMovies #TCM #Movie #Noir #Drama
neutral · AI labelView post →The number 1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go. '88 was a strong year. Welcome to America. Rain Man. Willow. Beetlejuice... But this was the #1. And honestly? Not sure what it says about how 2026 is going to go for me!
neutral · AI labelView post →Anti-vaxxers claim the movie "Rain Man" (1988) was made to get people used to autism and vaccine damage. #antivax #antivaxxers #unvaxxed #unvaccinated
neutral · AI labelView post →Barry Levinson celebrates birthday, 4/6/1942. Writer 📖, Director 🎬, Producer 📽 From box office hits like GOOD MORNING, VIETNAM to prestige 📺 like HOMICIDE & DOPESICK, stellar resume. 6 Oscar Noms: 79 And Justice For All 📖 82 Diner 📖 88 Rain Man 🎬 (win) 90 Avalon 📖 (#1 Fave) 91 Bugsy 🎬📽 #filmsky 🎥
neutral · AI labelView post →If one were doing research about bad autism movie tropes, what would be considered essential viewing? Aside from Rain Man & Music.
neutral · AI labelView post →#JuneMovieChallenge 6/1. Movie about or filmed in Kentucky. Rain Man (1988)
neutral · AI labelView post →The Belle Stars with their cover of Iko Iko featured in the film Rain Man #Paws4Music youtu.be/GQWDeAsi0AY?...
neutral · AI labelView post →It's in this way that Xtro is a much better film than something like Rain Man
neutral · AI labelView post →sadly, the world never got to see the Purple Rain Man crossover film we so desperately needed
neutral · AI labelView post →My late best friend and I ran into Dustin Hoffman in one of the washrooms (😳) at Toronto's legendary Roy Thomson Hall back in '02 at a Toronto Film Festival screening of "Frida," LOL!!😹 His big bodyguard jumped out in front but the former Rain Man nodded in our direction regardless!!😂
neutral · AI labelView post →Why Are Anti-Vaccine Influencers Obsessed With the Movie Rain Man? They think the time it was published supports their claim that vaccines cause autism. But that's false, and @aboutpediatrics.bsky.social has the receipts. open.substack.com/pub/stopanti...
neutral · AI labelView post →Especially awkward when Sia herself described her film Music as "Rain Man the musical, but with girls," while completely oblivious to the awkward implications of that comparison.
neutral · AI labelView post →In the 1988 film ‘Rain Man’ Dustin Hoffman famously portrays a 13 year old, yes.
neutral · AI labelView post →"Yippie-Ki-Yay!" #MovieHistory On this day 1988, the world premiere of DIE HARD took place at the AVCO Theater in LA (released wide on July 15th & July 22nd). It was the 7th highest grossing film of 1988, behind Crocodile Dundee II, Twins, Big, Coming to America, Who Framed Roger Rabbit & Rain Man.
neutral · AI labelView post →#TheAccountant2 Rain Man x Army of Two. This is what @vycevictus.bsky.social would call a TNT movie, in a very fun and breezy way. Perfect viewing for a lazy summer weekend. Power of Brothers blasting baddies and saving the day. Great stuff.
neutral · AI labelView post →Rain Man was released on this day in 1988 #movies #film #filmsky #moviesky 🎥🎬
neutral · AI labelView post →I mean, he sucks now but “never was” is crazy. He had a run in the 80s and 90s that was legit impressive & for a while was arguably the biggest movie star on earth Top Gun Rain Man Born on the 4th of July A Few Good Men The Firm Interview with the Vampire Mission Impossible Jerry Maguire Magnolia
neutral · AI labelView post →I think it's safe to say if RFK Jr. ever saw Rain Man he missed the point of that movie entirely.
neutral · AI labelView post →A rewatch after probably a quarter of a century! A cracking film, on a completely different level to something like Rain Man in having an *ambiguous* neurodivergent representation. boxd.it/eNjQcp
neutral · AI labelView post →Rain Man the movie. Released in 1988. Raymond would be about 88 years old and was an autistic savant according to the story line. A movie written about it, an audience who knew clearly about it. The term Autism was established is 1912. A Prez and Sec of HHS thinking it never existed until now?
neutral · AI labelView post →It's a surprising film. Wonderful cast. Reminds me of my own immigrant family. Once so intertwined when Dad was young, but today we're completely scattered. Total strangers. Levinson was essential watching back then. Diner, Rain Man, Wag the Dog, The Natural, Tin Men, Bugsy. Quite a filmography!
neutral · AI labelView post →My biggest flaw is that I am monstrously selfish. My biggest strength is that I have a Rain Man-like ability to remember the year that any and every movie was released.
neutral · AI labelView post →wrote about the Accountant 2, Rain Man, and why Hollywood's treatment of autism is generally awful. Also! I think about Kimi as a (good!) autism film. www.motley-bloom.com/articles/wha...
neutral · AI labelView post →I am younger than 40 RFK Jr was younger than me when Rain Man came out. I know it’s not a perfect movie but I’m sick and fucking tired of “autism didn’t exist” You were younger than 35 when a movie about how autism has existed we’ve just ignored it was a hit Shut the fuck up you weird ahole
neutral · AI labelView post →#ThrowbackThursday 12/10/1988, “Rain Man” premiered in Huntington, #WestVirginia. This #photo (by Herald-Dispatch) from the banquet held after the movie. Dustin Hoffman (left) Dr.Ruth Sullivan (center) and Joseph Sullivan converse on the dais. Hoffman’s character was patterned in part on Joseph #wv
neutral · AI labelView post →The last 4 movies I watched... Porco Rosso The Lego Batman Movie Rain Man Digger And since I skipped last week, also watched: You Can See Everything Rosemary's Baby Nuremberg Prince of Darkness Charlotte's Web #lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday #letterboxd #filmsky #moviesky boxd.it/Iqj
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched Rain Man for the first time. What an ugly ass movie. and I mean aesthetically. I needed this. I had nearly tricked myself into thinking that most older films looked better purely because they were shot on film and had more deliberate shot compositions
negative · AI labelView post →It's World Autism Awareness Day. Believe us when we say who we are. Stop expecting us to be like Rain Man, we're not, he was a fictional character in a movie. Also we're not a monolith, each autist is its own person with flaws and strengths, like any other human being.
neutral · AI labelView post →2 wolves are inside of me but please keep it down b/c they are doing a shot-by-shot re-make of the 1988 film Rain Man It was easy to teach the Raymond wolf to count cards; the hardest bit so far's been getting the Charlie Babbitt wolf to drive a convertible on the freeway with the top down
neutral · AI labelView post →Insert photoshopped image of the cover of the film Rain Man but with a leprechaun instead of Dustin Hoffman and the title has crudely been updated to say "gRain Man"
neutral · AI labelView post →*nods* My monster romance movie of the '80s was Legend, not Labyrinth. And I would have picked the Dark Lord, altho' that and Rain Man were the only movies with Tom Cruise I've ever liked.
neutral · AI labelView post →Singin in the Rain Man with a Movie Camera Barry Lyndon La Cienega The Apartment
neutral · AI labelView post →Yeah, difficult to tell, but no worries! What's fucked is, for that time, that was progressive. Seriously too, at that time, most people knew the word 'autism' from the movie Rain Man and that's it! Things improve. Society advanced, though currently we're going to have to do that by force.
neutral · AI labelView post →Pick a movie, keep one actor, rest are muppets Rain Man Dustin Hoffman
neutral · AI labelView post →Fast forward to 1988: Barry Levinson chooses "Iko Iko" by The Belle Stars for the opening credits of his film Rain Man, giving the song a whole new life in the US… A single was reissued, caught on, and in 1989 it became a US #Billboard #Top40 hit 7 years after its original release! #OneHitWondered
neutral · AI labelView post →You may find this hard to believe, but in 2026, George HW Bush isn’t POTUS, George Michael doesn’t have the top hit, and ‘Rain Man’ isn’t the top grossing film. Your bogeyman is dead. Get over it!
neutral · AI labelView post →spell your name with movie titles 🍿 Last Action Hero O Brother, Where Art Thou? Rain Man It's A Wonderful Life
neutral · AI labelView post →Without saying Rain Man, fav Tom Cruise Film? Interview with the Vampire
neutral · AI labelView post →Without saying Rain Man, fav Tom Cruise Film?
neutral · AI labelView post →Without saying Rain Man, fav Tom Cruise Film?
neutral · AI labelView post →Let me stress because it should piss you off: Rain Man outgrossed this movie. Rain Man, which SCARED MY MOM OFF GETTING ME DIAGNOSED FOR 9 YEARS, outgrossed one of the most entertaining movies in film history.
neutral · AI labelView post →#OnThisDay "Rain Man" starring Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman was released in theatres today in 1988. It was the highest-grossing film of 1988 and won 4 Oscars including Best Picture. #80s #80smovies
neutral · AI labelView post →I tried to watch Rain Man recently... boy oh boy has that film aged
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