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2. Rain Man - Wikipedia

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   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 has died and bequeathed his multimillion-dollar estate to his other son, Raymond (Dustin Hoffman), an autistic savant whose existence Charlie was unaware of.

3. Barry Levinson - Wikipedia

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   Barry Lee Levinson (born April 6, 1942) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. [1] Levinson won the Academy Award for Best Director for Rain Man (1988). [2] [3] [4] His other best-known works are similarly mid-budget [5] comedy drama and drama films such as Diner (1982), The Natural (1984), Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), Bugsy (1991), and Wag the Dog (1997).

4. Ronald Bass - Wikipedia

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   Rain Man (1988) Ronald Jay Bass (born March 26, 1942), sometimes credited as Ron Bass , is an American screenwriter and film producer . He won an Academy Award for writing the screenplay for Barry Levinson 's film Rain Man , and films that Bass is associated with are regularly nominated for multiple motion picture awards.

5. Kim Peek - Wikipedia

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   He was the inspiration for the character Raymond Babbitt in the 1988 movie Rain Man. Although Peek was previously diagnosed with autism, he is now thought to have had FG syndrome. [4] [5] The Utah Film Center's Peek Award honors his legacy. [6]

6. List of American films of 1988 - Wikipedia

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   Orion Classics / Road Movies Filmproduktion / Argos Films / Westdeutscher Rundfunk: Wim Wenders (director/screenplay); Peter Handke, Richard Reitinger (screenplay); Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Curt Bois, Peter Falk, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Crime & the City Solution: 13 Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood: Paramount Pictures

7. Dustin Hoffman - Wikipedia

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   The movie is a black comedy film [89] produced and directed by Barry Levinson, who also directed Hoffman in Rain Man in 1988. The story takes place a few days before a presidential election, where a Washington, D.C. spin doctor (De Niro) distracts the electorate from a sex scandal by hiring a Hollywood film producer (Hoffman) to construct a ...