Source: Good News Network
30 years ago today, Rain Man, starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise, premiered in New York City. The film won four Academy Awards—Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Director (Barry Levinson), and Best Actor in a Leading Role for Hoffman. The highest-grossing movie all year, it depicted a slick car salesman, Charlie Babbitt (Cruise), who learned that his estranged father had died.
He returns home and discovers that he has an autistic brother named Raymond (Hoffman), and the entire family fortune of $3 million is being left to the mental institution where Raymond lives. Motivated by his father’s money, Charlie checks him out of the facility and starts driving him back to Los Angeles. The brothers’ cross-country trip ends up changing both their lives. WATCH the trailer, and learn which actors passed on the roles… (1988)
Some Trivia about who was originally envisioned to play the key roles: The script was sent to Bill Murray, who was offered the title role—with Dustin Hoffman slated to play the ‘LA slimeball’. Mickey Rourke was also offered a role but he turned it down.
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