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Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

patriciaaniston Barry Levinson's Rainman is a good but not great film and I feel its kinda overrated. It is a good, solid feature film but certainly not worthy of best picture. Furthermore with the passage of time we have seen that the autistic portrayal here is kinda skewed to put it mildly. However, having said this it is a good film featuring a great performance by Dustin Hoffman who won an Oscar for his portrayal of an autistic brother to Tom Cruise's straight man. Regardless, this is a good watch, if for nothing else then for the fact that it won many awards.

oasisnl This movie starts with charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) discovering that his father has died. Charlie and his father haven't spoken in years and he is emotionless about the funeral. Expecting to inherit his fathers wealthy estate, he is shocked to learn he is only getting the Buick convertible that was the reason for them falling out, and 3 million dollars is going in to a trust fund for an unknown trustee. Charlie angered at this decides to find out who it is and he does. He makes a visit to Wall brook where he discovers Raymond (Dustin Hoffman) an autistic man a lot older than charlie, who turns out to be his brother. Shocked and confused charlie at first wonders why was he kept a secret, but that quickly turns to greed as he decides to kidnap Raymond and hold him ransom for his share of the 3 million because as charlie puts it Raymond has no concept of money. Along the way charlie realises something he has missed and that money can't replace family.Tom cruise brilliantly portrays Charlie Babbitt a character who is filled with anger, greed, selfishness and yet he also turns the character slowly around as all those emotions slowly fade away as he discovers he's a brother and though the youngest he feels protective of Raymond, charlie is at first is annoyed that Raymond needs to do things at a certain time, then defends him when others don't understand. Dustin Hoffman is exceptional as Raymond compelling and sweet who doesn't understand he's been kidnapped. The realtionship of Raymond and Charlie is what makes the film work.Valeria Golino plays charlies girlfriend susanna, she brings a real sense of grounded truth to charlie even leaving him at one point out of disgust for his attititude early on towards his brother. Though she returns toward the end sharing a sweet moment with Raymond in the lift. I highly recommend.

Mihai Toma After the death of his father, a young car dealer with a troubled childhood gets shocked by two pieces of information which are received simultaneously. He received next to nothing from his father's fortune and he has a brother who's existence was kept secret all his life. He begins a desperate attempt to convince the lawyers that he deserves half of the fortune by using his autistic brother as exchange but ends up bonding with him, while all the money are put on a distant plan.It's an interesting approach in terms of character and point of view changes which occur suddenly for an introverted person who thought only about himself. Due to the high quality of the two main actors and their execution, we're presented a very interesting and emotional story of an unexpected bond between two very different characters, despite the natural difficulties of one of them. Their adventures are described in great detail but unfortunately the action is pretty static and tends to become repetitive. Although trying hard to induce something different towards the end, the movie's finale is abrupt and predictable.It's a very good movie, especially when talking about acting and characters, but it left me with the impression that they could have done a bit more about the plot, especially when it comes to the final part. I was expecting a masterpiece, just like "A Beautiful Mind" which simply left me breathless, but it wasn't able to raise that high.

Amir Ghorbani I think this movie showed that humans can have peculiar understandings, and implicitly proved that we can make everything real! because what is real?? like other good movies it doesn't stand in our mind and slides to our heart to make sense ! it stimulated the willing for power in the spectators!