The Rain People
6.5
1,146
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- Original title
- The Rain People
- Year
- 1969
- Running time
- 102 min.
- Country
- United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Shirley Knight
- James Caan
- Robert Duvall
- Tom Aldredge
- Marya Zimmet
- Andrew Duncan
- Laurie Crewes
- Margaret Fairchild
- Sally Gracie
- Alan Manson
- Robert Modica
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama | Road Movie
- Synopsis
- Having discovered that she is pregnant, Natalie Ravenna (Shirley Knight), a Long Island housewife panics and leaves home to see if she might just possibly have made something different out of herself; if she can manage to unshackle her grocery list worth of responsibilities that add up to a life with a husband she loves. In a motel room where Natalie stops to rest during the day, she sits motionless on the bed, and experiences the exuberance of complete freedom and the queasy feelings of new beginnings. Natalie continues on with her journey and picks up a young hitch-hiker -Killer (James Caan), an attractive brain-damaged football player. It is through Killer that poses a more disturbing question to Natalie than that of domestic responsibility. How deeply are we wedded to chance meetings and are we responsible for the crimes that we witness?
- Awards
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1969: San Sebastián: Golden Shell
- Critics' reviews
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"An overlong, brooding film incorporating some excellent photography."
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"Like its main character, the movie hits the road with no final destination in mind, and the manic inventiveness that sustains the early passages becomes strained and weird by the end."
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