Plot: Charles Sanford "Charlie" Babbit is a self-centered Los Angeles-based automobile dealer/hustler/bookie who is at war with his own life. Charlie, as a young teenager, used his father's 1948 Buick convertible without permission and as a result, he went to jail for two days on account that his father reported it stolen. It is then that Charlie learns that his estranged father died and left him from his last will and testament a huge bed of roses and the car while the remainder will of $3 Million goes into a trust fund to be distributed to someone. Charlie seemed pretty angry by this and decides to look into this matter. It seems as if that "someone" is Raymond, Charlie's unknown brother, an autistic savant who lives in a world of his own, resides at the Walbrook Institute. Charlie then kidnaps Raymond and decides to take him on a lust for life trip to the west coast as a threat to get the $3 Million inheritance. Raymond's acts and nagging, including repeated talks of "Abbott & Costello", "Four minutes till Wapner" and refusal to fly on an airline except Quantas drives Charlie insane... and out of his selfish world into a cross-country trek of pure love and understanding that these two both have.
Runtime: 133 mins
Release Date: 15 Dec 1988
Starcast: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino, Gerald R. Molen, Jack Murdock, Michael D. Roberts, Ralph Seymour, Lucinda Jenney, Bonnie Hunt, Kim Robillard, Beth Grant, Dolan Dougherty, Marshall Dougherty, Patrick Dougherty, John-Michael Dougherty, Peter Dougherty, Andrew Dougherty, Loretta Wendt Jolivette, Donald E. Jones, Byron P. Cavnar, Donna J. Dickson, Earl Roat, William Montgomery Jr., Elizabeth Lower, Michael C. Hall, Robert W. Heckel, W. Todd Kenner, Kneeles Reeves, Jack W. Cope, Nick Mazzola, Ralph Tabakin, Ray Baker, Isadore Figler, Ralph M. Cardinale, Sam Roth, Nanci M. Harvey, Kenneth E. Lowden, Jocko Marcellino, John Thorstensen, Blanche Salter, Jake Hoffman, Royce D. Applegate, June Christopher, Anna Mathias, Archie Hahn, Luisa Leschin, Ira Miller, Chris Mulkey, Tracy Newman, Julie Payne, Reni Santoni, Bridget Sienna, Ruth Silveira, Jonathan Stark, Lynne Marie Stewart, Arnold F. Turner, Gigi Vorgan, Richard A. Buswell, Barry Levinson, Matthew Mattingly, Aaron Weiler, Mark Winn,
Director(s): Barry Levinson
Genre: Drama, ,
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095953/
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IMDb Rating: 8.0/10 (439391 votes)
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