Rain Man of wet kitsch. Roger Ebert gave the film three and a half stars out of four. "Rain Man" debuted on December 16, 1988, and was the second highest-grossing film at the weekend box office (behind "Twins"), with $7 million. It reached the first spot on the December 30 – January 2 weekend, finishing 1988 with $42 million. The film would end up as the highest-grossing U.S. film of 1988 by earning over $172 million. The film grossed over $354 million worldwide. "Rain Man" won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Actor in a Leading Role (Dustin Hoffman), Best Director and
Killer in the Rain not be reprinted. This was because he felt that the plots had become cannibalized — in the process of writing three of his novels, Chandler had borrowed, expanded, and extensively reworked plots, passages, and characters from these eight stories. "The Big Sleep" made use of "The Curtain", "Killer in the Rain", as well as small passages from "Finger Man". "Farewell, My Lovely" made use of "The Man Who Loved Dogs", "Try the Girl" and "Mandarin's Jade". "The Lady in the Lake" made use of the short story of the same name, "Bay City Blues" and "No Crime in the Mountains".