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Rain Man sends a selfish hustler and the autistic savant brother he never knew existed across America in a 1949 Buick, and the trip became one of the defining dramas of the 1980s. Dustin Hoffman's Oscar-winning Raymond gets the fame, but the film belongs just as much to Tom Cruise, whose Charlie transforms by inches in what many consider his best dramatic work. It swept the top Academy Awards and remains warmly loved, even as its portrayal of autism has aged into a complicated legacy the film now carries everywhere it goes. The brotherhood at its center still lands.