Overview
When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and that his father's $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives. Motivated by his father's money, Charlie checks Raymond out of the facility in order to return with him to Los Angeles. The brothers' cross-country trip ends up changing both their lives.
Details
- Director
- Barry Levinson
- Writer
- Barry Morrow
- Original Language
- English
- Budget
- $25,000,000
Cast
Bonnie Hunt
Dustin Hoffman
Gerald R. Molen
Jack Murdock
Kim Robillard
Lucinda Jenney
Michael D. Roberts
Ralph Seymour
Tom Cruise
Valeria Golino
Keywords
asperger's syndrome
autism
blackjack
car dealer
cincinnati
convertible
disability
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forgotten memory
individual
las vegas
loss of loved one
loving
melodramatic
mentally disabled
mentally handicapped man
psychiatrist
road trip
sentimental
suppressed memory
travel
yuppie
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