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Synopsis: Charles Sanford "Charlie" Babbit is a self-centered Los Angeles-based automobile dealer/hustler/bookie who is at war with his own life. Charlie, as a young teenager, used his father's 1949 Buick convertible without permission and as a result, he went to jail for two days on account that his father reported it stolen. It is then that Charlie learns that his estranged father died and left him from his last will and testament a huge bed of roses and the car while the remainder will of $3 Million goes into a trust fund to be distributed to someone. Charlie seemed pretty angry by this and decides to look into this matter. It seems as if that "someone" is Raymond, Charlie's unknown brother, an autistic savant who lives in a world of his own, resides at the Walbrook Institute. Charlie then kidnaps Raymond and decides to take him on a lust for life trip to the west coast as a threat to get the $3 Million inheritance. Raymond's acts and nagging, including repeated talks of "Abbott & Costello",
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Barry Levinson
Production: MGM
  Won 4 Oscars. Another 22 wins & 22 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.0
Metacritic:
65
Rotten Tomatoes:
89%
R
Year:
1988
133 min
3,373 Views


- Airline travel's very dangerous.

- Don't be silly.

It's the safest travel in the world.

You'll love this. Trust me.

Now come on.

We're in an airport.

People fly out of airports.

- Why do you think we're here?

- Flying's very dangerous.

In 1987, there were

and 230 were definitely passengers.

This plane is very safe.

Believe me.

I gotta get to L.A.

I don't have time for this sh*t.

Oh, I don't know. I don't know.

- You don't know?

- No.

- Is it this airline?

- Yeah.

Okay, fine. We can--

There's an American plane.

American flight 625...

crashed April 27, 1976.

We don't have to take American.

There's a lot of flights.

Pick another airline.

- Continental. We'll take Continental.

- Continental crashed November 15, 1987.

Flight 1713. 28 casualties.

- This is very serious.

- Yeah, very serious.

I have to get to Los Angeles.

So you're gonna get on that plane.

- Do you understand me?

- Yeah.

- You have to get on a plane.

- Yeah.

Now, there's a Delta.

- Yeah.

- It leaves at midnight.

How's Delta?

Delta crashed August 2, 1985.

Lockheed L-1011.

Dallas-Fort Worth.

Terrible wind shear.

- All airlines--

- 135 passengers.

All airlines have crashed

at one time or another.

That doesn't mean

that they are not safe.

- Quantas.

- Quantas?

Quantas never crashed.

- Quantas?

- Never crashed.

- Well, that's--

- Never crashed.

That's gonna do me

a lot of good.

Quantas doesn't fly to L.A.

out of Cincinnati.

- You have got to get to Melbourne...

- Australia.

in order to get the plane

that flies to Los Angeles.

- Do you hear me?

- Canberra's the capital.

- 16.2 million population.

- Let's go.

Very lovely beaches.

We're getting on this plane!

Ray! Ray! Ray!

We're not gonna take the plane.

He's okay. He's okay!

We're not gonna take the plane.

Just relax.

He was upset.

We were gonna take the plane.

We're not gonna take it now.

- We're not gonna fly, okay?

- No flying.

- We're not gonna fly.

- No flying.

- You tire me, Ray.

- Yeah.

We're gonna drive to Los Angeles.

Okay? Come on, Ray.

Ray? Come on.

- Yeah.

- Come here.

- No flying.

- We're not taking the plane.

- Just grab the f***in' bag.

- No flying.

You're killin' me, Ray.

I just want you to know.

- No flying.

- I gotta be in L.A. in three hours.

It's gonna take me three days.

Come on!

No flying.

- No flying.

- No flying.

I got 'Jeopardy' at 5:00.

- I watch 'Jeopardy' at 5:00.

- Don't start with that.

'Jeopardy' at 5:
00.

- Dispatch, this is 1-0-9.

- Go ahead, 1-0-9.

Can you get another unit here

for point control?

Two more over to you. 10-40.

Let's go!

- Bring some more up.

- What's your E.T.A.?

Ray?

Get in the car.

Get in the car.

Are you crazy?

We'll be outta this in a second.

- Yeah.

- That's good.

It's okay. That's right.

Yeah. We'll be outta here

in a few seconds. That's good.

- That's good. That's good.

- There's a fatal accident over there.

We don't need your help.

Go back to your car.

Just a minute!

Son of a b*tch! Ray?

Excuse-- Hey--

- Just wait--

- There's nothing to see here.

- Go back to your car.

- Yes, sir.

- Wrecks make him nervous.

- Get in your car.

Yes, sir. Just stay there

by the side, okay, Raymond?

- Ray. Just stay there.

- A lot of traffic.

Yeah.

Definitely a lot of traffic.

A lot of work for $3 million.

I'd Like to Leave him on the highway

and get outta here.

What? I hear ya! I hear ya!

- Memorial Hospital is ready--

- Stay in your car!

What's it gonna be, Ray?

This is

a very dangerous highway.

How will I get to L.A.?

Driving a car on this interstate

is very dangerous.

You wanna get off the highway?

Will that make you happy?

- Yeah.

- Well, you gotta get in the car...

in order to get off the highway!

In 1986, 46,400 male drivers

were involved in fatal accidents.

I got a great idea.

You'll stay in front of the car

until we get off the exit.

You'll get in, and we'll take

the not-so-dangerous road.

- Is that an idea?

- Yeah.

Give me five, Ray.

That's a great idea.

Give me five. Yeah.

This guy's a f***in' fruitcake.

I'm asking you. Who's on first?

That's the man's name.

That's whose name? Yes.

Go ahead and tell me.

Who? The guy on first.

Who? The first baseman.

Who is on first.

Whose wife? Yes.

- After all, the man earns it.

- Who does?

Absolutely.

All I'm tryin' to find out

is what the guy's name on first base.

No, what is on second base.

I'm not asking you who's on second base?

Who's on first?

- That's what I'm tryin' to find out.

- Get in the car!

Don't change the players.

Yeah, get in the car.

Get in the car. Yeah.

I have to be in bed by 11:00.

Lights out at 11:00.

Have to watch TV.

Now it's almost

We have to be in bed by 11:00.

Lights out.

We're not flying.

We're not on the interstate.

I'm on some sh*t secondary road.

I gotta make up time.

I should've been in Los Angeles

this afternoon.

My business needs me.

I gotta make up time.

Definitely watch TV, but be

in bed by 11:
00. Lights out.

Forget it.

This is a good one.

'We don't go out when it rains.'

This is a good one.

I hope you appreciate this...

because my business

is going down the toilet.

I should be in L.A.

Instead I'm in the Honeymoon Haven Motel

in Bumblefuck, Missouri...

because you won't

go out when it rains.

It's mystifying. It really is.

F***in' mystifying.

What is this?

Good news, bad news?

We passed D.O.T.

but failed E.P.A. again.

It all ends up the same.

I can't get my money.

Well, yes, sir. I'm just stuck

in Cincinnati since the funeral.

So many leftover details.

My family is...

needless to say,

quite overwhelmed.

Yeah, well, thank you.

I appreciate it.

It is a shock, to say the least.

Thank you. Can I get

an extension on that Loan?

A couple of days

would make a big difference.

'We don't go out when it's raining.'

What? Speak up, Lenny.

I didn't buy that kind of time.

I want you to go down--

How much?

- It's 12:
30.

- What?

Lunch is 12:
30.

- Hold on. What do you want for lunch?

- Wednesday's fish sticks.

- Fish sticks?

- Green lime Jell-O for dessert.

Green lime Jell-O.

Want another apple juice?

I want orange soda.

Oh, it's 12:
31.

I gotta go.

He's startin' to rock and moan.

- 12:
32. Definitely 12:32.

- It's okay. No.

- Give me that gun.

- Where is he?

Where is he?

How did you figure

to frame Vargas with it?

'Frame'? Where is he?

- There's four fish sticks.

- Huh?

There's supposed to be eight.

There's only four.

There's eight.

You take a shower, Ray?

- Ray, you take a shower, right?

- Yeah.

It's the same as the rain.

You get a little wet.

What do you say, Ray?

'Course, the shower's

in the bathroom.

That's the end

of that conversation.

- Go again.

- British Poetry for 200.

The answer:
'Shakespeare wrote

over 150 poems in this 14-line form.'

- What is a sonnet?

- What is a sonnet?

- You got it.

- Double letters for 200.

The top of that one. 'The last word

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Ronald Bass

Ronald Bass (born March 26, 1942), sometimes credited as Ron Bass, is an American screenwriter. Also a film producer, Bass's work is characterized as being highly in demand, and he is thought to be among the most highly paid writers in Hollywood. He is often called the "King of the Pitches".[citation needed] In 1988, he received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Rain Man, and films that Bass is associated with are regularly nominated for multiple motion picture awards. more…

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