All in all this is a very good movie that sure deserves to be seen. The role he was playing seemed to be written for him. And even though I'm not a huge Tom Cruise fan, I must say that he was really very good in this movie.

Still, his performance is very believable and remarkable. Especially Dustin Hoffman is excellent, but that has of course much to do with the role that he is playing. The acting for instance is also very good. And that's not the only good thing about this movie. That's without any doubt a very smart idea which makes this movie work. Charlie has nothing else but money on his mind, while Raymond doesn't even know what money is. The main reason for that is because it accentuates the contrast between the two men even more.

This wouldn't have been a typical eighties movie if there hadn't been a selfish yuppie in it of course, but I must say that it didn't bother me this time. Enraged by all this 'injustice', Charlie kidnaps Raymond from his residential home, but then finds out how difficult it is to live with a man who only can live with his fixed routines. And if that shock isn't yet big enough, the man also appears to be able to calculate complicated mathematical problems in his head with great speed and accuracy, but doesn't even understand what money can be used for. And to make things worse for Charlie, he hears that all the money goes to Raymond, an autistic man who he has never seen before in his life, but who appears to be his brother. He has never had a good relationship with his father, who threw him out as a teenager, but he sure hoped for more than a now antique convertible. When the selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt hears that his father has left behind a fortune after his death, but that he won't get it, he is furious. That's certainly a movie that deserves a closer watch. But it has to be said, not all of those movies are bad either, take for instance this 'Rain Man'. Does that also mean that those movies are always excellent? No, although I wish they were. Sometimes it almost feels like they are desperate to show that they too have a heart and so a director who hasn't won anything so far just has to make a movie with such a subject and he can be sure that he will hit the jackpot. The academy loves movies about people with difficult lives or with a handicap. It's not very difficult to see why this movie won four Oscars and was nominated for four more.

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