Release Date: December 16th, 1988
DVD Release Date: February 6th, 2001
R|2 hr 13 min
Plot Summary
When car dealer Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has an autistic older brother named Raymond (Dustin Hoffman) and that his father's $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives. Motivated by his father's money, Charlie checks Raymond out of the facility in order to return with him to Los Angeles. The brothers' cross-country trip ends up changing both their lives.
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino, Gerald R. Molen, Jack Murdock, Michael D. Roberts, Ralph Seymour, Lucinda Jenney
Director: Barry Levinson
Genres: Comedy drama
Production Co: Guber-Peters Company
Distributors: United Artists, MGM/UA Home Entertainment Inc.
Keywords: Transformation, Amusing, Emotional, Girlfriend, 1980s, Family, Hospital, Doctor, Moving
