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
Raymond III, Count of Tripoli that Raymond suffered from pleurisy. Other sourcesErnoul, the "Estoire de Eracles" and Abu'l-Fidaemphasized that Raymond's sorrow for the crusaders' catastrophic defeat at Hattin caused his illness. Having no children, Raymond willed the County of Tripoli to the eldest son of Bohemond III of Antioch, Raymond, who was his godson. The contemporaneous Ralph of Diceto recorded that Raymond died fifteen days after the fall of Jerusalem, that is, on 17 October 1187. Historian Lewis proposes that Raymond most probably died in September. William of Tyre, who held Raymond in high regard, described him as a man with "much foresight" in both