1988
7.754
(6.6K)
Duration
2h 14m
Premiere
December 12, 1988
Budget
$25,000,000
Gross worldwide
$354,825,435
Genres
Drama
When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and that his father's $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives. Motivated by his father's money, Charlie checks Raymond out of the facility in order to return with him to Los Angeles. The brothers' cross-country trip ends up changing both their lives.
United Artists
Star Partners II Ltd.
The Guber-Peters Company
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer