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• Drama
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• 1988
• Barry Levinson
• 128 mins
• 15

Summary

Oscar-winning drama starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise. Hustler Charlie Babbitt feels cheated when he is disinherited in favour of his autistic older brother Raymond, whom he hardly knows. Demanding a fair share of his late father's fortune from his brother's trustees, Charlie takes Raymond out of care and heads for California.

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A star rating of 5 out of 5.

Andrew Collins

While everyone remembers this film about an autistic man as Dustin Hoffman's Oscar-winning triumph, the film equally belongs to co-star Tom Cruise. He plays a fast-talking, wheeler-dealer who learns that he's been cut out of his father's will and has a brother confined to an institution. What follows is a classic road movie, as the siblings take off on a cross-country trip to California in an old Buick. Hoffman's savant - a mass of baseball and airline disaster statistics, prone to hysterics if his routine is broken - is one of modern cinema's great triumphs: believable, unsentimental, often hilarious. But it's Cruise's character who has the greater emotional journey, from being selfish and impatient to protective and eventually loving. Director Barry Levinson handles the whole thing beautifully, and bagged an Oscar for his efforts, while the film itself took the best picture award.

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8.0/10

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Cast

rolenameRaymond BabbittDustin HoffmanCharlie BabbittTom CruiseSusannaValeria GolinoDr BrunerJerry MolenJohn MooneyJack MurdockVernMichael D RobertsLennyRalph SeymourIrisLucinda JenneySally DibbsBonnie Hunt

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rolenameDirectorBarry Levinson

Details

Theatrical distributor

U.I.P. (UK)

Released on

1989-03-03

Languages

English | Italian

Guidance

Contains swearing.

Available on

video, DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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