It’s a true story about a severe autistic man, its discovered he has a photographic mind with adding numbers, I must watch it again , I haven’t watched in over 20 years…
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I remember in the movie, wooden tooth picks, fell all over the restaurant table, and the autistic genius counted them all, he said 365, he was able to count them just by looking, pure genius
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I heard he’s not really autistic, something else…
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.
Release date: March 17, 1989
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I was thinking of this guy…the real rain man. I should have read the part about the movie…
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The character Raymond is based on a real person,
The rest of the story is made up.
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similar to Laurence kim peek, is a man that took a helicopter over NYC and then drew the whole city by memory and photographic mind these guys are total genius’s
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in today’s world, being in an institution is out dated.
The big push is to get the disabled into independent living, with help of course from care givers.
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Now, does your son live with you? I do know that many people with DS have jobs and such.
@Daze
no loke my son lives with his mom, I see him lots, he owns half my heart, he brought so much joy to my life, words can’t really describe my feelings 4 him
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