just catch the rain people on turner classic movie late one night . the film be release in 1969. shirley knight star a natalie and a long island housewife who exact reason unknown leave her husband and embarks on a road trip and not know exactly where she be go . natalie be also newly pregnant and which complicate thing . along the way and she pick up a brain damage ex football player jimmy ( james caan ) and who have be kick out of his college and be hitchhike . there be many twist and turn along the way between these two and a natalie struggle to take care of jimmy and she begin to realize he be mentally limited and can not take care of himself . she be go through her own struggle and needless to say and and in no position to care for him . natalie appear to be a woman on the edge of a nervous breakdown at time while she make some odd phone call to her husband and who beg her to come home . natalie try to dump jimmy several time and only to have him re enter her life through circumstance . a young robert duvall play a strange and troubled cop who befriend natalie . you get the sense all along that this film be go to end badly and and it do . this film be certainly uneven at time and and the script be somewhat lacking . francis ford coppola direct this and and of course he would soon become immensely famous in the next few year for direct the godfather . the actor be good one and needless to say and a they all would have future ahead of them in film . shirley knight be the least known of the three and although she be also underrated a an actor . james caan be especially effective here and he seem to just inhabit this character . this film remain little more than a curiosity now and no doubt because it be an early movie of coppola and and i confess i have never hear of it . so god bless turner classic movie for bring it to a new audience .