Brothers

1988 · Barry Levinson · 133 min · Drama

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.

2024 · Sally Rooney · 448 pages · Literary Fiction

Rooney's most ambitious and emotionally expansive novel yet, centered on two grieving brothers whose romantic lives are pulling them apart. The prose is sharp, the emotional intelligence is deep, and the structural experiment mostly succeeds, even when the novel's length tests its own patience.

2020 · Dan Scanlon · 102 min · Animation, Adventure, Fantasy

A deeply personal story about brotherly love and father loss wrapped in a clever urban fantasy setting, Onward delivers a gut-punch ending even if the journey there is Pixar on autopilot.