mostly interior journey: the awakening of two walled-off souls. Actually, it’s more like the greening of one soul, Tom Cruise’s Charlie Babbitt, and the nudging of another, Dustin Hoffman’s Raymond Babbitt,
That is precisely the situation that Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) is faced with in “Rain Man.” His brother, Raymond (Dustin Hoffman), is “high-level” autistic. He can carry on conversations, stick to a schedule, compile baseball statistics, memorize dinner menus and become disturbed when ...
The Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman starrer, Rain Man, has gone down in Hollywood history. The story is about Charlie Babbit, played by Cruise, a down-on-his-luck salesman. He takes on the responsibility of Raymond, his autistic brother with a gift for mathematics. The academy award winner...
My brother-in- law once had beaten me up with a belt for hours and even grabbed me by my hair, tore my dress, and tried to physically abuse me." (viaFirst Post)3 The Real Mrs. Chatterjee’s Eldest Child Was Autistic The same interview with First Post touches on the fact that after...
Of course, none of this would be possible without the freak-of-nature we know as Tom Cruise. Something I’ve said and written many times before – Mr. Cruise was not only born to play the role of Ethan Hunt, through the years he has definitively made it his own. What has allowed mo...
Of course, none of this would be possible without the freak-of-nature we know as Tom Cruise. Something I’ve said and written many times before – Mr. Cruise was not only born to play the role of Ethan Hunt, through the years he has definitively made it his own. What has allowed mo...
More a movie about racism than mathematics (just as A Beautiful Mind was a movie about schizophrenia), but plenty of blackboards with orbital equations and (horrendous) numerical calculations. The mathematics that is discussed is extensively simplified, phrased as the problem of the transition from ...
Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country. 65 Based on 18 critics Similar movies Silent Fall (1994) An autistic boy witnesses his parents' double murder. Richard Dreyfuss as a controversial therapist...
Ridley Scott's dark fantasy epic (and not just because he's bent down low for most of the film), but I'm convinced this ambitious snooze fest made Cruise go, "It didn't work out with Ridley, so let me try his brother Tony next," and that's why he followed Legend up with Top ...
RAIN MAN starsDustin HoffmanandTom Cruiseas estranged brothers on a road trip unlike any other across America. Charlie Babbitt (Cruise) has been given the news that his recently deceased father has left his entire fortune to his autistic brother Raymond (Hoffman), who he did not know existed....