Rain Man is an 1988 American road comedy-drama film directed by Barry Levinson and written by Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass.
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10 Facts About Rain Man
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Rain Man premiered at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Golden Bear, the festival's highest prize.
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Rain Man needs to deliver the cars to impatient buyers, who have already made down payments, in order to repay the loan he took out to buy them, but the EPA is holding the cars at the port because they have failed emissions tests.
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Rain Man learns that the money is being directed to a local mental institution, where he meets his elder brother, Raymond, of whom he was unaware his whole life.
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Rain Man has superb recall, but he shows little emotional expression except when in distress.
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Rain Man realizes Raymond had lived with the family as a child and was the "Rain Man", a comforting figure that Charlie had falsely remembered as an imaginary friend.
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Rain Man was placed on 39 critics' "ten best" lists in 1988, based on a poll of the nation's top 100 critics.
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Rain Man is a movie famous in particular for its portrayal of a man with both autism and Savant Syndrome, leading much of its viewing audience to understand the intellectual capabilities of those with autism in an incorrect way.
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Conversely, Rain Man has been seen as dispelling a number of other misconceptions about autism, and improving public awareness of the failure of many agencies to accommodate autistic people and make use of the abilities they do have, regardless of whether they have savant skills or not.
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Rain Man is portrayed as a cloud of rain mumbling about weather patterns and being an excellent driver.
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