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A story about brotherly love, life and the gifts we never see.
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Production
Go behind the scenes on the 1988 Drama movie starring Tom Cruise, Dustin Hoffman, Valeria Golino, Gerald R. Molen
Jack Murdock, Michael D. Roberts, Ralph Seymour, Lucinda Jenney, Bonnie Hunt, Kim Robillard, Beth Grant, Andrew Dougherty, Dolan Dougherty, John-Michael Dougherty, Marshall Dougherty, Peter Dougherty Update Cast
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The character of Raymond Babbitt was inspired by real-life American savant Kim Peek, born 1952, whom Rain Man writer Barry Morrow first met in 1986. When Barry Morrow won an Oscar for the screenplay of "Rain Man" in 1989, he gave his Oscar trophy to Kim Peek.Rewind Archive
The director of the film, Barry Levinson, was an uncredited script doctor for the film.Rewind Archive
Spielberg originally wanted to direct the film. He worked on script development, pre-production etc. and then had to hand the whole project over when he was unable to direct, instead honoring his promise to George Lucas to finish the Indiana Jones trilogy.Rewind Archive
After being interviewed by the psychiatrist, Raymond (Hoffman) leans his head against Charlie's and says "My main man Charlie". This was unscripted, and improvised by Hoffman.Rewind Archive
The script originally had Raymond as happy and friendly, but mentally retarded. After an initial reading Dustin Hoffman successfully lobbied for Raymond to be a withdrawn autistic. Hoffman suggested that Raymond being autistic would be a more challenging and interesting plot line for the film's main characters.Thanks to VIRGIL VASQUEZ
After a few weeks of filming Dustin Hoffman felt so unsure about his performance that he asked the Director Barry Levinson to fire him and go get Richard Dreyfuss or someone else -but Levinson didn't as he could see what Dustin couldn't at the time - that it was a brilliant beautiful performanceThanks to VIRGIL VASQUEZ
During filming Hoffman and Cruise were so unsure about their performances and how the movie was turning out that they would continually joke that the movie title should be "Two Shmucks in a car"Next Section: Deleted Scenes
Deleted Scenes
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Alternate Versions
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