A veritable gem that has until now slipped through the crack of my viewing list, Tom Cruise joins forces with Dustin Hoffman to create an original piece that hasn't lost it's significance or poignancy since its release. This film is glaringly representative of the late 1980s, and at times the chic, fast-paced life of Cruise's character is much too heavy-handed, but Hoffman's performance of the autistically talented older brother brings Rain Man back on course. There seem to be moments of forced narration, either by the doctor or by exposition of obsessively repetitive routine, but autism seems to have been a condition that wasn't widely known at the time of release. The peripheral characters were too minor to note, and the cinematography nothing more than adequate to express the progression of the plot. I'm glad that Rain Man - with it's wide character arcs, fantastic dialogue, and classic 80's style - has worked it's way into the repertoire of great modern American film.
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3/10/2010
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