Rain Man is a 1988 American drama film directed by Barry Levinson and written by Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass. Starring Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman, the film tells the story of an abrasive, selfish young wheeler-dealer Charlie Babbitt (Cruise), who discovers that
Rain Man is a 1988 American road comedy-drama film directed by Barry Levinson and written by Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass. It tells the story of abrasive and selfish wheeler-dealer Charlie Babbitt, who discovers that his estranged father Sanford has died and bequeathed his multimillion-dollar estate to his other son, Raymond, an autistic savant of whose existence Charlie was unaware. Morrow created the character of Raymond after meeting real-life savant Kim Peek; his characterization was based on both Peek and Bill Sackter, a good friend of Morrow who was the subject of Bill, an earlier film that Morrow wrote.