Rain Man Analysis

I decided to write my paper about the movie “Rain Man.” The Rain Man stars Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise. The movie was produced in 1988 and was written by Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass. Rain Man depicts the one-sided relationship between two brothers. The movie is about an autistic savant name Raymond, who is a resident of a home for the mentally disabled, is played by Dustin Hoffman and his fast, talking, self absorbed, self centered hustler, egocentric, younger brother, Charlie Babbitt, played by Tom Cruise. Charlie is a car salesman whose business seems to be going down hill. Charlie and is girlfriend were on their way to Palm Springs when Charlie had received an unexpected phone call from his friend and co-worker. He tells Charlie that his fathers’ lawyer had been trying to reach him. His father had passed away and the funeral happened to be the next day. Charlie never really had a good relationship with his father, but he decided to go to the funeral to pay his respects and to get his share of his father’s estate. As the lawyer is reading the will to Charlie, he finds out that all he was receiving his fathers’ 1949 …show more content…
I would help him be more aware of the environment outside. I don’t think I would keep my “patients” in a building their whole life and not let them do a whole lot. I would let them do activities with each other but let them be outside. I would let them explore what the outdoors is like. I’m not sure if there are any medications that would help the Asperger’s Syndrome, but if there were, I would probably prescribe something that would help them. I think that, in this case, Raymond, could possibly use either individual or group therapy, but probably mainly group. I think it would be a good idea because it gives him a chance to interact with all kinds of people who are mentally disabled or have a different kind of