When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond 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: 1988
Rating: 7.752
Genre: Drama
Duration: 134 min
Country: United States of America
Production: United Artists, Star Partners II, The Guber-Peters Company
Dustin Hoffman
as Raymond Babbitt
Tom Cruise
as Charlie Babbitt
Valeria Golino
as Susanna
Gerald R. Molen
as Dr. Bruner
Jack Murdock
as John Mooney
Michael D. Roberts
as Vern