Penguin Readers, 1994. — 42 pages.When Charlie Babbitt’s father dies, he is sure he will get all
the rich man’s money. But Charlie is wrong. The money has
gone to someone else - someone nobody has ever told him
about: his brother.
Raymond Babbitt is not like other people. He cannot live
in the real world. When Charlie meets him in the home
where he has lived for many years, he knows it is Raymond’s
doctor he must fight to get the money.
But Raymond is someone special, and the brothers’ meeting
is the beginning of an adventure that will change them
both . . .
The film Rain Man came out in 1988. The idea came from a
story by American writer Barry Morrow. Tom Cruise played
Charlie Babbitt and Dustin Hoffman played Raymond. Hoffman
tried to learn as much as possible about people like
Raymond before he made the film. He talked to a lot of
doctors, and met between thirty and forty people who had
the same ‘problem’ as Raymond: they lived their lives inside
themselves and it was very hard for them to talk to people.
The film made $110 million in its first year, in the United
States alone, and won four Oscars. Leonore Fleischer wrote
the book from the film, and from Barry Morrow’s story, in
1989.
