Rain Man Rain Man Rain Man is a 1988 American comedy-drama road movie directed by Barry Levinson and written by Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass. It tells the story of an abrasive, selfish young wheeler-dealer Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise), who discovers that his estranged father has died and bequeathed all of his multimillion-dollar estate to his other son, Raymond (Dustin Hoffman), an autistic savant, of whose existence Charlie was unaware. Charlie is left with only his father's car and collection of rose bushes. In addition to the two leads, Valeria Golino stars as Charlie's girlfriend, Susanna. Morrow created the character of Raymond
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".