In the film, Charlie discovers that his father left his inheritance to his autistic brother Raymond, and he wants to defraud the wealth, and plans to use his brother's super memory to gamble to make money. But in the process, the kinship of blood broke the original estrangement, and the sincere and touching brotherhood replaced Charlie's original selfish self-interest.
Charlie Babbitt is a young car dealer in Los Angeles. He ran a small car dealership, and with his shrewd mind and agility, his business flourished. Today Charlie saw another deal done. He was so happy that he took his girlfriend, Susannah, one of his only two employees, to Palm Springs for the weekend.
On the way, he received a call from Lenny, an assistant who stayed at the company, informing him that his father had just passed away. Charlie was indifferent, but he decided to go to Cincinnati for his father's funeral.
It turned out that Charlie's mother died when he was two years old, and his father was very strict with him. When Charlie was sixteen, he disregarded his father's prohibition and drove his father's favorite "Buick" white convertible from 1949 to take his classmates for a ride. Unexpectedly, his father deliberately called the police and reported that the car was stolen. His classmates were detained by the police for "car theft", Charlie's classmates were quickly released on bail by their respective 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, and then refused to contact his father in any form.
Charlie's father said in his will that "he lost another son". But his father is his father after all. In addition to wishing Charlie all the best, his father left him the white Buick sedan and his award-winning grafted rose bushes that caused them to turn against each other. As for his house and other estates worth three million dollars, they are listed as trust funds, and the trustees are entrusted by the beneficiaries of the estate.
Charlie was disappointed and extremely angry. He thought he was the only heir to his father's property. However, the tough-minded and shrewd Charlie never intends to stop there. He decides to find out the whereabouts of the huge inheritance left by his father, and prepares to fight an inheritance battle to defend his rights.
Following the trail, Charlie and Susannah found a nursing home called Walbrook. It soon became clear that the trustee of the original three million dollar estate was Dean Bruno. Dr. Bruno was 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 lived in the nursing home for a long time. Raymond suffers from autism, he cannot interact with people in a normal way and cannot adapt to social life in the usual sense.
Only then did Charlie know that he had an older brother. Facing this brother who "has no concept of money" but inherited a $3 million inheritance, Charlie was outraged and laughed: "What does this money mean to him (referring to Raymond)?" He felt that his father was in Deliberately fooling him, punishing him, playing a big joke on him. He took his resentment towards his father to the "older brother" who had suddenly appeared in front of him, and looked at this stupid, intellectually questionable older brother with envy and contempt. However, this Raymond seemed to be easily manipulated, and Charlie decided to use him to take back half of his inheritance that should have belonged to him.
Without Bruno's consent, Charlie took Raymond out of the sanatorium privately. As long as he wins custody of Raymond, he will also win back his father's inheritance. Besides, he has to rush back to Los Angeles to take care of the business. Susannah was dissatisfied with Charlie's use of Raymond and left him angrily.
So Charlie had to take Raymond on the journey alone. However, it is not easy to get along with this mentally troubled brother. Raymond lives by a fixed ritual, and he has to do a fixed thing at a fixed time (because Raymond is an autistic person and behaves in certain things. have to repeat stereotypes). To watch a fixed TV program at a fixed time, to have a fixed recipe for each meal, and to go to bed at a fixed time. He also only wears boxer briefs bought from a certain store.
In addition, he refused to fly, refused to drive on the highway, which stems from his fear. At the airport he suddenly loses control and yells because Charlie tries to force him to take a flight. During the trip, Charlie was exhausted by Raymond's many eccentric habits and ignorance.
Once, they knocked over toothpick boxes in a restaurant. Raymond immediately said the number of toothpicks. Charlie suddenly discovers that his brother has an amazing memory and mental arithmetic ability.
Charlie discovers the imbecile brother's high talent: Raymond has an amazing memory and the ability to "remember". He can accurately report the frequency, time, place, and cause of all major air crashes in flight history, and he can quickly count 246 toothpicks that fell on the restaurant floor. He could also remember any phone number he had read in the phone book. His mental arithmetic is as fast as a calculator.
The clever Charlie had an idea and came up with a plan: "He did some training for Raymond, did some "packaging", and then took him to a casino in Las Vegas, Las Vegas, to live up to him With his amazing memory, Raymond won $86,000 by gambling. (Charlie's loan was gone, his car was confiscated, his credit card was blocked, and he didn't have much cash. Later, he found that his brother was very good at mental arithmetic and went to the casino. )
And for Raymond, it was also an unusual trip, leaving the routine life of a sanatorium and changing the routines he was used to, all unsettling but also a new experience: even Little things like taking the escalator were interesting to Raymond, who counted cards to win money for his brother, played a spin on the wheel of fortune, had a brief conversation with a nightclub girl, and made a wishful appointment. He insists that Charlie teach him to dance in order to make the appointment. Although his "girlfriend" did not come in the end, in order to comfort him, the kind Suzanne danced with him in the elevator and taught him to kiss.
That is to say, this journey full of a series of frictions and disagreements made the brothers gradually develop a brotherly relationship, or find their former kinship. Once, Raymond saw the hot water in the bathtub, and suddenly lost control again, shouting: "The hot water will hurt the baby, it must not hurt Charlie Babbitt". Only then did Charlie know that the "Rain Man" that remained in the vague memories of his childhood was Raymond. , whenever little Charlie is afraid, "Rain Man" will sing to him to comfort him. For a long time, Charlie thought that "Rain Man" was just a friend in his childhood fantasy, but this fragile person in need of protection had protected him and comforted him, and was sent to a nursing home by his father because he almost hurt him. Only then did Charlie know how deeply he had been loved and cared for, and what sacrifices his parents and brother had made for him. Although he didn't have the slightest impression of his mother, he couldn't detect the love of his father, who was not good at expressing his feelings.
Charlie, who has always been indifferent to family love, was deeply touched, and his resentment against his father also melted away. Raymond in front of him is his brother who is connected by flesh and blood, witnessing his family's deep love for him, and Charlie's affection for Raymond also enables Susannah to see Charlie's inner world, his original emotions and innate Come virtue. Their love is deeper and stronger.
The inheritance of three million is no longer important to Charlie, and brotherhood has overshadowed money. Charlie has been fighting to regain custody of Raymond, but loses the lawsuit. Charlie ultimately fails to win the custody of Raymond. As a result, Raymond and Charlie need to be separated, and Raymond returns to the nursing home. What he was worried about was not being able to see Raymond again. Raymond put his head on his brother's head. He expresses his love and attachment to his younger brother in this childish way.
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