Rain Man Themes

Raymond Babbitt is described as an "autistic savant," and Rain Man portrays him as being super challenged in terms of expressing himself and relating to others. Of course, one of the big ironies of...

Rain Man is all about family drama. Pretty much right off the bat, we learn that Charlie had a crummy relationship with his father and hadn't spoken to him since he was a teenager, and his mother d...

Charlie's a big believer in that truism that money makes the world go around. At the beginning of Rain Man, it's pretty much all he can think about—largely because he's in some serious financial...

Okay, so this isn't a super obvious theme in Rain Man—Charlie doesn't seem to feel much of anything for most of it—but if you look a little closer, you can see a whole ocean of guilty, not-so-g...