Episode 24: Rain Man (1988)

Today I’m looking at Rain Man (1988), a film I first saw at 15 in the cinema with my dad, double-billed with Twins. What’s stayed with me is how it works as a road movie built on forced proximity, where the emotional shift between the two brothers slowly does all the heavy lifting. Still a film I like a lot, but now I see Tom Cruise as carrying more of the emotional weight than I did at the time.