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REACTION PAPER ON THE FILM RAIN MAN
(1988)

SUMMARY:

Well written, smartly directed, and sensitively performed, RAIN MAN depicts the one-sided relationship between two brothers. A self-centered Los Angeles hustler Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) and the older Raymond (Dustin Hoffman), a mentally challenged resident of a home for the mentally disabled.

Charlie never knew of his existence, until the day he returns home from Los Angeles to attend his father's funeral. He is enraged by what has happened and by his father keeping Raymond's existence from him for his entire life. What angers him even more is when he learned about the last will of his father. In the will, his father left his fortune to his other brother, (an individual that doesn't even understand what money is for) while only he got nothing but his father's prized rose bushes and the vintage '49 Buick car.

As Charlie experiences a combination of confusion and anger, he takes his brother out of the......

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