Rain Man

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I got around to watching Rain Man today, Tom Cruise's is good playing Tom Cruise, I guess. However Dustin Hoffman does a very good performance of a low functioning autistic savant, low functioning autistics can be verbal. But a lot of the behaviour Ray Babbitt does in the film is very much what Low functioning Autistics do. The film is moderately entertaining, but not excellent, I would give it 3, maybe 3 1/2 out of 5 stars.

I identify very strong with Tom Cruise's character because I have a 8 year old half brother, while being mentally ret*d does some of the things that Ray Babbitt does in Rain Man and I get furious and annoyed by it to no end.

i've seen movies like that one and i am sam with sean penn. but people cant help who they are, but it doesnt mean they cant live normal lives and be productive.

I always loved the movie. Even before I knew I had a form of autism.

How many people here have been called "Rain Man" because of their aspie/autie traits? I'm self-dx'd and still pretty "in the closet" but my sister has called me Rain Man. I think she's got me figured out...

Good movie, BTW. You never know what level of accuracy you're gonna get from Hollywood and I think they did a good job on this one.

I can agree with that Dustin Hoffman does a very convincing preformance of a low functioning autistic savant.

Oh, but I am Rain Man. My mom called me Rain Man for a few months, and evantually got bored with it I guess. I really like the movie, I can spot some of the similarities with myself. I've seen a person with LFA come through my line at work once. He was with his mom, and tlaking about on of her friends and how he remembered her through her lips rather than face. I was kind of at awe.


"i am sam" is an awesome movie.

I work in a home taking care of mentally challenged adults and the agency I work for supports quite a few people with LFA, from higher functioning to very low functioning. (We don't have any in the home I'm working in myself right now though.) You can definitely tell they're autistic in a general sense but beyond that, they're all just as individual as we aspies are in terms of autistic traits and personality.

I like the movie. But I was kinda disappointed about the ending. It ended before I thought it ended and was surprised to see the credits.

But otherwise, I really like it. I also have it on DVD.

Dx'd less than 2 yrs. ago, can't really evaluate these portrayals of dx'd-seeming characters.
Saw Rainman when it came out, way back when-liked it, though it was distressing. Saw United States of Leland a few months ago, liked it, another "no way this can end happily" tale. Saw dvd last night called Milwaukee Minnesota-couldn't have known from description I read on the box, but the lead character & plot were like "Rainman the ice fishing savant". Didn't enjoy that one, it was just off-putting to me. Of course, AS/autism more dx'd in males, so lack of female version of these stories also irks me. Still waiting for something easier to identify with...

WOW time to respond to a post from 4 years ago!

All I can add is, the irony is that the man in real life that Dustin Hoffman's character is based on was not autistic. And that's I'll I've got to say about that.

I think it is the most amazing movie about autism, plus it is also an atypical road movie. However, it also brought along lots of stereotypes about autism, and now all people think that every autist is Rain man, because we all must be low-functioning. That´s how we are seen now. And it is because of this movie. So I LOVE Rain man, but when I say I am autistic people usually don´t believe me because I am not low-functioning or I don´t look like a ret*d. (I don´t mean it in an offensive way, I am just saying what kind of things people usually connect with the word "autism").