(1988) SUMMARY: Well written‚ smartly directed‚ and sensitively performed‚ RAIN MAN depicts the one-sided relationship between two brothers. A self-centered Los Angeles hustler Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) and the older Raymond (Dustin Hoffman)‚ a mentally challenged resident of a home for the mentally disabled. Charlie never knew of his existence‚ until the day he returns home from Los Angeles to attend his father’s funeral. He is enraged by what has happened and by his father
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Kramer v Kramer is a movie filled with opportunities for choosing sides. But what actually matters in this movie isn’t who’s right or wrong‚ but if all the characters involved are able to behave according to their own better nature. It starts of by showing a marriage filled with unhappiness and ego and ends with two single people who have both learned important things. There is a child caught in the middle but this isn’t a movie about the plight of the kid but about the dilemma of the parents. Usually
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Kim Peek - Savant The Original Rain Man Preceding the savant Daniel Tammet by several years‚ Kim Peek is the real life Rain Man whom the Dustin Hoffman character was based in the movie. Described as a confounding mixture of disability and brilliance‚ Kim is in love with knowledge. Kim Peek is probably the world’s most famous savant. Kim was diagnosed as being mentally retarded at birth‚ but with father Fran’s unflagging support he has developed a memory that is without equal. Born and raised
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every morning‚ doing their homework when they get home and praying before they go to sleep. The only difference between a normal person and Raymond is that Raymond has autism and having these routines and rituals is a symptom of his disorder. Dustin Hoffman’s Role as Raymond was very convincing. I am not very familiar with people that have autism but I could by the way he dazed into space with a far-off look and
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“Wag the Dog” was a motion picture screened in 1997 with Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro as lead actors. ‚ it is all about illusions created elsewhere to avoid realities that are current‚ unpopular and to camouflage a foreseeable political disaster. The illusion is to spin or cause a stir like creating a war or
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In the opening scenes of the movie‚ Dustin Hoffman plays the starring role as “The Graduate” Benjamin Braddock Benjamin is on an airplane landing in Los Angles as he arrives background music plays “The Sound of Silence”‚ and begins with the line‚ “Hello darkness‚ my old friend” plays. The main motifs of this movie seem to play on rebellion against authority; alienation and isolation; sexually dominance‚ and the loss of one’s innocence. Often a young man‚ although educated‚ possibly will perhaps
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“Rain Man” The Rain Man stars Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise. The movie was made in 1988. The movie is about an autistic man named Raymon‚ who is a idiot savant played by Dustin Hoffman and his fast‚ talking self absorbed‚ egocentric brother Charlie Babbitt‚ who is played by Tom Cruise. A egocentric person is a person with the simple recognition that every living thing views the world from a unique‚ self-oriented perspective(LIFE: Inherently Egocentric written by James Craig
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President’s staff to take the heat off of the President. He comes up with the brilliant idea to create a false war with Albania. "Why Albania?" "Well‚ what do you know about Albania?" "Nothing." "Exactly." He hires top movie producer Stanley Motts (Dustin Hoffman) to help him with the story and details and to use the endless amount of visual tricks available to them. They create a short grainy news footage piece of a young girl running from her village holding a kitten. She is in fact an actor and running
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movie also helped skyrocket Dustin Hoffman’s Hollywood road to fame‚ as well as sparked new life to Anne Bancroft’s. Few would doubt that this coming of age tale could be considered a ‘great movie’. It’s an American classic and one of the best movies I’ve ever seen. Part of what makes this movie so great is‚ first of all‚ the acting. It’s needless to say that bad acting takes away from a film whilst good acting only makes it better‚ and this film is no different. Dustin Hoffman’s portrayal of Ben
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choice of what they say and how they say it that gives insight into their character. Some characteristics of voice that we take into account are register‚ range‚ accent‚ tone‚ volume and pitch. In a movie such as “Rain Man”‚ we hear the timbre of Dustin Hoffman’s flat‚ autistic monotone. In the play‚ Pygmalion‚ we are asked to provide for ourselves the sound of Eliza Doolittle’s cockney twang. Through the study of ”Pygmalion”‚ and the 1988 film‚ “Rain Man‚ we can see how distinctive voice lead
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