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Does Rain Man have autism? How much older is Raymond than Charlie in Rain Man? Who is the real Rain Man? How long is the movie Rain Man? Is Kim Peek still alive? What year is Rain Man? What did Rain Man suffer from? What is the plot of Rain Man? EN IT. Username or Email Address. This website uses cookies and sends them to third parties to send you tailor-made ads according to your preferences.

By closing this banner, navigating away from this page or clicking on any element on the page you confirm that you accept cookies. If you want to learn more: Cookie Info — Privacy Policy. Search Search for: Search. At one point, this movie was the biggest grossing Best Picture Oscar winner. It was subsequently surpassed by Forrest Gump , which had been put into development at a rival studio at roughly the same time.

Shot in sequential order, roughly following the actual road trip that the characters take. Dustin Hoffman said the "hot water burn baby" bathtub scene was one he dreaded filming because he was unsure of how to play it. Ultimately, he channelled his anger and frustration about doing the scene to convey the emotions of Raymond. The script originally had Raymond as happy and friendly, but after an initial reading Dustin Hoffman successfully lobbied for Raymond to be a withdrawn autistic.

The highest-grossing movie of Tom Cruise 's wearing of Ray Bans boosted sales of that style fifteen percent. While it wasn't anywhere near as big a boost as when he wore Wayfarers in "Risky Business", this is the second time in the s his wearing of a style of Ray Ban sunglasses in a movie helped increase sales of it.

When Hoffman won, he hugged Hackman as he left his seat on the way to the podium where he affectionately mentioned Hackman in his acceptance speech.

He failed to mention Tom Cruise , but made up for it later in the show. When they returned to the stage together to present the Best Actress award to Jodie Foster for The Accused , Hoffman thanked his co-star, telling him, " Tom Cruise , you are my brother. Barry Levinson shot most of the exchanges between Charlie and Raymond in profile, because Raymond refuses to make eye contact with anyone to whom he's talking.

The diner scene where Raymond counts toothpicks after the waitress spills them on the floor was filmed at Pompilio's Restaurant in Newport, Kentucky. Today, Pompilio's has a "bas relief" mural on one wall, which features velvet-sewn figures of Raymond and Charlie in their Buick Roadmaster, parked in front of the restaurant. The actual bronzed toothpicks that Dustin Hoffman counted in the scene are attached to the mural.

The script was originally written with real-life brothers Randy and Dennis Quaid in mind. Director Barry Levinson admitted that Ray's comment about Qantas being the only aircraft company to never have had a fatal crash was made up, and that he didn't know if this was true. In reality, Qantas has had eight crashes, all prior to the making of the film, but they were all propeller-driven planes, not jets. Screenwriter Barry Morrow chose the name of the film by reading through a book of names, deciding which sounded most interesting when mispronounced.

Marrow decided that "Rain Man" was the best. In order to see if this instinct was correct, he asked his children which of the four they preferred and all agreed with his choice.

In the movie, when Charlie removes Raymond from Walbrook, we see them walking down a long oak tree lined driveway. In , many of these oak trees had become diseased, forcing their removal replacements were to be planted. Before the trees were cut down, several people came to the grounds of the convent and re-created the scene where Raymond and Charlie walk down the drive.

By having a foreigner play the role, whose native tongue wasn't English, it allowed for Tom Cruise 's character to do a lot of exposition. Steven Spielberg considered directing. He began making notes in order to prepare for the project. The reason he backed out is because his friend George Lucas needed him to start work on Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade So Spielberg left the project and gave his notes to Barry Levinson.

Sydney Pollack was the next director to work on the film. He ditched an action sequence in which Charlie saves Raymond from some thugs, but he wasn't keen on the idea of a road movie. Dustin Hoffman suffered injuries to his hand while shooting the scene of the nighttime car accident. Shooting was suspended for several hours while he was transported to a local Kentucky hospital to remove a piece of glass from his hand and get stitches.

The reason for the accident is he was telling a joke to the crew between scenes that required him to run as a part of the joke. He slipped and cut his hand on the glass from the scene. The Academy had made the switch for discretionary purposes as well as to avoid the implication that the nominees who did not win were losers, and the practice has been in effect ever since The radio station slogan that Raymond is so fond of repeating, "97X - Bam!

In , it moved to internet broadcasting only and shut down completely in Although they share co-screenwriting credit, Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass never met until the numerous awards ceremonies they attended when the film started garnering multiple awards. Bonnie Hunt 's Sally Dibbs film debut. Warner Brothers had, at one point, the opportunity to make both this movie and Forrest Gump but ended up with neither because of concerns they were too similar.

Peter Guber and Jon Peters ' production company, which had picked up the script for this movie, had a first look deal with the studio. However, Roger Birnbaum , an executive with the production company, felt that because Warner Brothers was also developing Forrest Gump , they would likely let this movie die if they were to pick it up, because of the script's perceived similarity.

So, reportedly, he purposely gave a weak pitch to the studio in the hopes that they would reject it and allow it to be pitched to another studio. This did in fact occur, and United Artists ended up making the film. After the movie's enormous success, Warner Brothers decided to pass on Forrest Gump , because they felt that audiences would be unlikely to go to a movie with such a similar theme as this movie. Dustin Hoffman originally wanted Bill Murray to play Charlie. He was also the War dealer in the movie Vegas Vacation , as well as a dealer in the movie Casino In real life, Nick was a Blackjack dealer at Caesar's Palace in the s and s.

In his youth, Hoffman had worked at the New York Psychiatric Institute ; for Rain Man he spent a year intensively researching autistic and savant individuals including Temple Grandin, Joseph Sullivan, who had incredible skills with numbers, and savant twins George and Charles. Subsequently, Rain Man led many people to assume that everyone with autism possessed incredible savant abilities. In the years following, rates of prevalence for autism spectrum disorder ASD , as it became known, rose dramatically — today in the US, one in 59 children have ASD.

Thirty years on, as the parent of a child with autism, I view the film very differently.