Rain Man premiered at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Golden Bear, the festival's highest prize. Morrow created the character of Raymond after meeting Kim Peek, a real-life savant his characterization was based on both Peek and Bill Sackter, a good friend of Morrow who was the subject of Bill (1981), an earlier film that Morrow wrote. Valeria Golino also stars as Charlie's girlfriend Susanna. Charlie is left with only his father's beloved vintage car and rosebushes.
It tells the story of abrasive, selfish young wheeler-dealer Charlie Babbitt ( Tom Cruise), who discovers that his estranged father has died and bequeathed virtually all of his multimillion-dollar estate to his other son, Raymond ( Dustin Hoffman), an autistic savant, of whose existence Charlie was unaware. Rain Man is a 1988 American road comedy- drama film directed by Barry Levinson and written by Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass.
