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Rain Man

Oscar™ Best Picture - Winning Movies

Rain Man

1988

Barry Levinson

Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino, Bonnie Hunt ...

7.4

89,025

Drama Callous hustler Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) is busy working on his next deal when he receives word that his estranged father has died. After traveling back to Ohio from Los Angeles for the funeral, Charlie is miffed to find that although he will receive a vintage Buick from his father’s estate, he isn’t getting a cent of the three-million-dollar fortune. Instead, Charlie finds that the money has been left to the caretakers of his ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Amy Dawes Variety	"It’s a mature assignment for Cruise and he’s at his best in the darker scenes."	POS
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"The performance is so remarkable, in fact, that it overwhelms what is otherwise a becomingly modest, decently thought-out, sometimes funny film."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Few actors could get anywhere with this challenge, and fewer still could absorb and even entertain us with their performance, but Hoffman proves again that he almost seems to thrive on impossible acting challenges (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"Fortunately, the script by Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow isn't half bad, and both Barry Levinson's direction and the performances are agreeably restrained."	POS
United States	Hal Hinson The Washington Post	"It's Hoffman's failure, though, that sinks the picture (...) There's no relaxation in his performance, no sense that he has ever merged with his subject"	NEG
United States	Keith Uhlich Slant	"Props should be given to Hoffman for insisting on the relatively downbeat ending, which saves 'Rain Man' from plunging into total offensiveness (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Emma Cochrane Empire	"Hoffman and Cruise give signature performances in this thoughtful, and hugely enjoyable, classic (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Nick Hilditch BBC	"The film's greatest achievement is successfully framing the plot around a character incapable of emotional development (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Sheila Benson Los Angeles Times	"'Rain Man' will disappoint no one (...) Hoffman makes all this hypnotically interesting, and, through impeccable timing, sometimes terribly funny"	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Tribune	"It's well directed, written and performed (...) Even the superstar presence of Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise can't save the picture from its creeping familiarity and heart-sinking predictability."	NEU
United Kingdom	Brian Case Time Out	"There is no story, no motor, and given the nature of the premise, nothing much can happen"	NEG
United Kingdom	Andrew Collins Radio Times	"Hoffman's savant (...) is one of modern cinema's great triumphs: believable, unsentimental, often hilarious (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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