Rain Man is a 1988 film about abrasive Charlie Babbitt, who discovers that his father has left all of his estate to an autistic savant brother, Raymond. Directed by Barry Levinson . Written by Barry Morrow Contents 1 Charlie 2 Raymond 3 Dialogue 4 Cast...
Academy award winning director, screenwriter, and producer Barry Levinson began his show business career in the late 1960s as a comedian and found success in every Hollywood path he took, but most notably as a director of movies, including Wag the Dog, D...
Rain Man is an Academy Award winning, 1988 drama film which tells the story of an abrasive, selfish yuppie, Charlie Babbitt, who discovers that his father has left all of his multi-million dollar estate to a brother who Charlie never knew he had,...
A Different Kind of Hurricane Hunter All my life I have yearned to experience the blinding fury of a hurricane and the ironic clarity of its eye. For years, first as a boy locked indoors by worried parents during several hurricane passages up...
BY VAN WALLACH WHEN MARK VRIELING, president of three-store Rain City Video in Seattle, was featured in this column almost two years ago, he spoke of his decidedly random, 'best-guess' approach to movie buying. 'Back then we weren't scientific at all,' he...
It took 26 years, six directing nominations and two screenplay nominations, but Martin Scorsese finally has his Oscar.Righting one of Hollywood's biggest oversights, the Academy Awards bestowed Martin Scorsese with a best-directing Oscar on Sunday night for "The Departed."Scorsese was received with a rousing standing...
Robert Zemeckis used Beowulf (No. 1), once the scourge of high-school English classes nationwide, to lure unsuspecting children and families to the box office this weekend, promising a 3-D spectacle the likes the which they had never seen. Improbably, he ended the weekend at...
