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When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and that his father's $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives. Motivated by his father's money, Charlie checks Raymond out of the facility in order to return with him to Los Angeles. The brothers' cross-country trip ends up changing both their lives.
1988 · Directed by Barry Levinson · 134 min · Drama · 33 frames
Tagline
A journey through understanding and fellowship.
Crew
- Screenplay: Ronald Bass, Barry Morrow
- Cinematography: John Seale
- Edited by: Stu Linder
- Music: Hans Zimmer
- Production design: Ida Random
- Produced by: Mark Johnson
Cast
- Dustin Hoffman as Raymond Babbitt
- Tom Cruise as Charlie Babbitt
- Valeria Golino as Susanna
- Gerald R. Molen as Dr. Bruner
- Jack Murdock as John Mooney
- Michael D. Roberts as Vern
- Ralph Seymour as Lenny
- Lucinda Jenney as Iris
- Bonnie Hunt as Sally Dibbs
- Kim Robillard as Small Town Doctor
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: Italian, English
- Studios: United Artists, Star Partners II, The Guber-Peters Company
- Budget: $25,000,000
- Box office: $354,825,435
- Themes: mentally disabled, individual, loss of loved one, yuppie, autism, car dealer, egocentrism, convertible, road trip, blackjack
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