AMC Central Europe

A journey through understanding and fellowship.

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 1948 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”,…

Rain Man won 4 Academy Awards in 1989:

Best Picture – Mark Johnson

Best Actor in a Leading Role – Dustin Hoffman

Best Director – Barry Levinson

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen – Ronald Bass (screenplay)  and Barry Morrow (screenplay/story)

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