Rain people are very fragile…one mistake in love and they dissolve.
When a housewife finds out she is pregnant, she runs out of town looking for freedom to reevaluate her life decisions.
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Prestige, grave, earnest and contemplative.
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- sparerichly built
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- Wuchakon TMDB · Sep 20247/10
**_Coppola's mundane and melancholy late ’60’s arthouse road movie_** A 30-ish wife on Long Island (Shirley Knight) needs to just get away and so enters her station wagon and drives west. To where? She doesn’t know, but she picks up an ex-college football player (James Caan) before meeting a motorcycle cop (Robert Duvall). “The Rain People” (1969) was made three years before Francis Ford Coppola became famous with “The Godfather.” It was his first movie in which he had total creative control, writing and directing on the road without producers breathing down his neck. The story was inspired by Francis’ mother curiously leaving home for a few days when he was a kid. It’s about a woman’s haphazard search for freedom from the manacles of domestic life. Unlike the domineering male protagonists of “Patton” (which he wrote), the Corleone patriarchs and Kurtz in “Apocalypse Now,” Coppola shows us here several females manipulating men: Natalie with Kilgannon, Gordon and even Vinny; Ellen with Kilgannon and her father; and Rosalie with her dad. Interestingly, it's the express opposite of Francis’ previous movie, the fun “Finian’s Rainbow,” which was based on the 1947 Broadway hit. One is an
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Cast
- James CaanJimmy Kilgannon
- Shirley KnightNatalie Ravenna
- Robert DuvallGordon
- Marya ZimmetRosalie
- Tom AldredgeMr. Alfred
- Laurie CrewsEllen
- Andrew DuncanArtie
- Margaret FairchildMarion
- Sally GracieBeth
- Alan MansonLou
Crew
- Francis Ford CoppolaDirector
- Francis Ford CoppolaWriter
- Wilmer ButlerDirector of Photography
- Ronald SteinOriginal Music Composer
- Barry MalkinEditor
- Bart PattonProducer
- Ronald ColbyProducer
- Francis Ford CoppolaProducer
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