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
The Greatest Show on Earth (film) Awards until "Spotlight" in 2016. Some consider this film among the worst to have ever won the Academy Award for Best Picture. It also won that award over highly rated films such as "High Noon", "The Quiet Man", and "Singin' in the Rain". The American film magazine "Premiere" placed the movie on its list of the 10 worst Oscar winners and the British film magazine "Empire" rated it #3 on their list of the 10 worst Oscar winners. It has the second lowest spot on Rotten Tomatoes' list of the 90 films to win Best Picture. Stanley Kramer alleged that