RAIN MAN (1988)****

(focus on family and brotherly love)

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Contains 15 movie quotes & 30 Academic Words (AWL*).
Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) is a young man who seems angry at the world.  When his father dies and leaves his millions to a mysterious trust fund, Charley learns for the first time that he has a brother, Raymond (Dustin
Hoffman).   Charley takes his autistic savant brother out of the hospital and on a road trip from Cincinnati to Los Angeles  thinking it will get him half of their father's money.  Instead, Ray's illness leads Charley on a path of self discovery as he learns what it means to care about someone other than himself.   With Valeria Golino.   Academy Award for Best Picture, (Mark Johnson) Best Director (Barry Levinson), Best lead actor (Dustin Hoffman), Best Story (Ronald Bass, Barry Morrow).   Rated R (133 min.) mike laib 2012.

Rain Man at the Forum

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095953/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_Man

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