Rain Man

Type: Media

As of November 2026, Rain Man has been mentioned in one podcast episode on Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard (Nov 2025). Movie mentioned in the context of discussing Tom Cruise's acting.

Rain Man is a 1988 American road comedy-drama film directed by Barry Levinson and written by Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass. It tells the story of abrasive and selfish wheeler-dealer Charlie Babbitt, who discovers that his estranged father Sanford has died and bequeathed his multimillion-dollar estate to his other son, Raymond, an autistic savant of whose existence Charlie was unaware. Morrow created the character of Raymond after meeting real-life savant Kim Peek; his characterization was based o