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
Jonathan Raymond 2008" lists, including those of the "Chicago Reader", "New York Post", "Newsweek", "The Austin Chronicle", "LA Weekly", "The Philadelphia Inquirer", the "Seattle Post-Intelligencer", "Entertainment Weekly", "The New York Times", "The Oregonian", "Slate", "The Village Voice", and "The Christian Science Monitor". In 2012, Raymond also published a second novel, "Rain Dragon", which revolves around the character of Damon and his girlfriend Amy, who have had enough of Los Angeles and decide to leave the city to work on a community farm. Raymond has co-written, with the director Kelly Reichardt, the screenplays for two of her films based on his short stories: