Charlie Babbitt is a young car dealer in Los Angeles. He runs a small car shop, and with a shrewd mind and agile wrist, he has a prosperous career. One day, Charlie saw that a business was done again, and when he was happy, he took his girlfriend Susanna to Palm Springs for the weekend.
On the way, he received a call from his assistant Lenny, informing him that his father had just passed away. Charlie was indifferent, but he decided to go to Cincinnati to attend his father's funeral.
It turned out that Charlie's mother died when he was two years old, and his father disciplined him very strictly. When Charlie was 16 years old, he drove his father’s favorite cabriolet out of his father’s ban to take his classmates for a ride. Unexpectedly, his father deliberately reported that the car was stolen, and Charlie and his classmates were charged with theft by the police. In detention, Charlie’s classmates were quickly released on bail by their parents, and Charlie’s father deliberately kept Charlie in the police station for two days in order to teach him a lesson. As a result, the father and son turned against each other, and Charlie ran away from home in anger, then refused to contact his father in any way. Charlie's father said in his will that "he lost another son." But the father is the father after all. In addition to wishing Charlie all the best, the father left him the white Buick sedan and his award-winning grafted rose bushes that turned against them. As for his house and other estates worth three million US dollars, they are listed as trust funds, and the trustee is in custody for the beneficiaries of this estate.
Charlie was disappointed and extremely angry. He thought he was the only heir to his father's property. However, Charlie did not intend to stop there. He decided to find out the whereabouts of the huge inheritance left by his father, preparing to fight an inheritance battle to defend his rights. Charlie and Susanna found a nursing home called Wallbrook, and quickly figured out that the trustee of the original three million dollar estate was Dean Bruno. Doctor Bruno is an old friend of Charlie's father for many years. He was appointed to manage the estate, and the beneficiary of the estate was Raymond Babbitt who had lived in the nursing home for a long time. Raymond suffers from autism, he cannot communicate with people in a normal way, and cannot adapt to social life in the usual sense.
Only then did Charlie know that he still had an older brother. Faced with this elder brother who had no idea about money but inherited an inheritance of three million dollars, Charlie was outraged, thinking that his father was deliberately fooling him, punishing him, and making a big joke with him. He moved his resentment towards his father to the "brother" who popped up in front of him, and Charlie was both jealous and contemptuous when he looked at this stupid brother with intellectual problems. But this Raymond seemed to be easy to manipulate, and Charlie decided to use him to regain half of his inheritance.
Without Bruno's consent, Charlie took Raymond out of the nursing home privately, and as long as he secured custody of Raymond, he would also fight for his father's inheritance. Besides, he has to rush back to Los Angeles to take care of business matters. Susanna was dissatisfied with Charlie's use of Raymond and left him angrily.
So Charlie had to take Raymond on the journey alone. However, getting along with this mentally problematic brother is no easy task. Raymond’s life adheres to fixed rituals. He has to do fixed things at fixed times. When he was at the airport, he suddenly lost control and shouted because Charlie tried to force He is flying. During the journey, Charlie was exhausted by Raymond's many weird habits and the pranks that made him ignorant of the world. However, Charlie also quickly discovered the high talents of this incompetent brother: Raymond has an amazing memory and an unforgettable ability. He can accurately report the flight number, time, location, and cause of all major air crashes in the history of flight. He can quickly count the 246 toothpicks that fell on the restaurant floor. He can also remember any phone number he has read in the phone book. His mental arithmetic speed is not inferior to the calculator.
The clever Charlie had an idea. He did some training for Raymond and made some packaging, and then took him to a casino in Las Vegas, the casino, and lived up to his expectations. Raymond won by gambling with his amazing memory. 86,000 U.S. dollars.
For Raymond, this was also an unusual trip. He left the immutable life in the nursing home and changed the immutable life rituals he was used to. All this made him feel uneasy, but it was also a new experience: even The trivial things like taking the escalator also made Raymond feel novel and interesting. He counted cards to win the money for his brother, played a lucky turntable, had a short conversation with a nightclub girl, and booked a date with wishful thinking. He insisted that Charlie teach him to dance in order to keep the appointment. Although his female companion did not come in the end, in order to comfort him, the kind-hearted Susanna danced with him in the elevator and taught him to kiss.
It was this journey full of frictions, disputes and stubbornness, which allowed the brothers to gradually develop brotherhood, or regain their former affection. Once, when Raymond saw the hot water poured into the bathtub, he suddenly lost control of his emotions again and shouted: "The hot water will hurt the baby, and it must not hurt Charlie Babbitt." Only then did Charlie know that the rainman who was in the fuzzy memories of childhood was Raymond. When he was a child, whenever Charlie was scared, the rain man would sing to him and comfort him. For a long time, Charlie thought that the rain man was just a friend of his childhood fantasy, but the fragile person in front of him who needed to be protected had once protected him and comforted him, and was sent to a nursing home by his father because he almost hurt him. Only then did he know how deeply he had been loved and cared for, and what kind of sacrifice his parents and brother had made for him. Although he had no impression of his mother, he could not perceive the love of his father who was not good at expressing feelings.
Charlie, who had always been indifferent to family affection, was deeply touched, and his resentment towards his father also melted away. Raymond in front of him is his brother of flesh and blood, witnessing his family’s deep love for him, and Charlie’s affection for Raymond also allows Susanna to see Charlie’s inner world, his original emotions and innate emotions. The virtues that come. Their love is deeper and stronger.
In the end, Charlie failed to win the custody of Raymond, but this time Charlie didn't care about the inheritance anymore. What he was worried about was not seeing Raymond again. Raymond put his head on his younger brother, and expressed his love and attachment to his younger brother in this naive way.
