1988 American family drama film, won four Oscar awards, Dustin. Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valerie. Starring Galinor.
Charlie. Babbitt relied on a shrewd mind to run a small car business, and finally fooled the customer into making a deal and then took his girlfriend and susan, who was also his clerk, to a weekend vacation, on the way to learn that his father had just died, Charlie showed indifference but decided to attend his funeral, he told Susan about his origins and the feud between father and son, his mother died when he was two years old, his father disciplined him very strictly, when he was sixteen years old, he drove his father's Buick car to take his classmates out to play, and his father actually called the police and caused them to be detained for car theft. Classmates are soon released on bail by their parents, and Charlie's father deliberately puts Charlie in the police station for two days to teach him a lesson. So Charlie holds a grudge against his father and runs away from home and no longer contacts.
After the funeral, Charlie inherited the Buick sedan from his father, while the three-million-dollar inheritance, such as the house, was listed as a trust fund, and the beneficiary was not him. Out of anger and determined to find out the whereabouts of the huge inheritance, Charlie goes to the nursing home in Wallbrook and learns from his father's old friend, the dean, that he has been entrusted by his father to manage the estate, and the beneficiary is Raymond Raymond, an autistic patient who cannot communicate normally after a long time. Babbitt, and he was his brother. Charlie felt that his father was deliberately fooling himself, and for this stupid brother who suddenly appeared, Charlie decided to use him to fight a lawsuit, obtain custody, and regain three million.
Charlie takes Raymond away from the nursing home without permission, his girlfriend leaves him dissatisfied with Charlie's unreasonable attitude towards his brother, and Charlie prepares to take Raymond alone to return to Los Angeles for trial, but the trouble has only just begun. Raymond's life was a fixed ritual, he had to eat at a fixed time, sleep, watch TV shows, there must be a fixed set menu for eating, the bed he slept in had to lean against the window, he was determined not to go out on rainy days, underwear had to be bought in a fixed store, and so on. Unable to complete Raymond's requirements, he will be out of control and shout, he resolutely does not take a plane, lists a series of air accidents, does not take the high speed, makes Charlie anxious, exhausted, but still gradually adapt to his brother's habits, try to meet his various seemingly illogical requirements, at the same time he also found Raymond's extraordinary memory, he can quickly count the number of toothpicks, remember the number in the phone book, the computing power does not even lose the calculator, At this time, Charlie, who was in financial trouble due to the failure of the business failure on the way, had the idea of getting rich, and he rushed to Las Vegas with Raymond.
After some packaging and a short training session, the two head to the casino, where Raymond's skills are in full swing, and the super memory of remembering six decks of playing cards leaves the casino helpless, and after they have earned eighty-six thousand dollars, ask them to leave. Charlie learns to care about understanding others and asks his girlfriend to get back together. Raymond also experienced a different life here, dating nightclub girls, his brother taught himself to dance, and danced and even kissed with the kind Susan in the elevator.
Later, after the hot water incident, Charlie learns that Raymond almost injured himself by giving himself hot water to bathe when he was a child, and was sent to a nursing home by his parents, and the rain man he remembered singing to comfort himself was Raymond, not his fantasy friend. Thinking back to his warm family and caring family, Charlie changed his original thoughts, although he was still angry that no one had told him that he had a brother for so many years, although after only six days of short companionship between them, he did not win raymond's custody in the end, but he did not care about the inheritance, but Raymond.
