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Rain Man Film, directed by Barry Levinson, starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise Reviewed by JOHN LISTER IF, LIKE ME, you dread teamest" films overladen with sound moral intent and obsessive desire to focus on 'awkward' topics, you still need have no fears in going to see Rain Man, despite the fact that its main character, an Oscar-winning role for Dustin Hoffman, suffers from the personality disorder known as autism.
However Rain Man is not simply about a particular fomm of mental/psychological handicap: it is about character. Hoffman plays Raymond Babbit, the autistic older brother of car importer Charlie Babbit