Rain Man
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 73 Ratings
- Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise
- Summary: What begins with a cold-hearted attempt by one man to steal his autistic brother's inheritance evolves into a cross-country odyssey of love, family and self-discovery.
- Director: Barry Levinson
- Genre(s): Drama
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Positive: 12 out of 18
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Mixed: 4 out of 18
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Negative: 2 out of 18
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100There've been few screen moments more moving this year than Cruise's initial reaction to his brother's almost superhuman math prowess. [16 Dec 1988]
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80Fortunately, the script by Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow isn't half bad, and both Barry Levinson's direction and the performances are agreeably restrained.
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60In much the way that Raymond stays detached, the performance seems to exist outside the film but, instead of illuminating Rain Man, it upstages the work of everyone else involved. [16 Dec 1988, p.C12]
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It's Hoffman's failure, though, that sinks the picture. He is working here with his usual meticulousness, but there's no relaxation in his performance, no sense that he has ever merged with his subject, that he has found Raymond's center and is simply acting out of it.
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Positive: 19 out of 23
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Mixed: 4 out of 23
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Negative: 0 out of 23
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SimonS.10I love this movie! So touching, so well made. Cruise and Hoffman feed well off each other, great chemistry.
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10This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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