Wednesday, January 30, 2013 - 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Pollock Theater, UCSB
Fast-talking yuppie Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) is forced to slow down when he embarks on a life-changing cross-country odyssey with the brother he never knew he had, an autistic savant named Raymond (Dustin Hoffman in his Oscar winning role) who's spent most of his life in an institution.
The packed house loved the film and the Q&A with the insightful, charming and funny Oscar Winning Screenwriter Barry Morrow.
The Script to Screen Series is sponsored by the department of Film and Media Studies and the Carsey-Wolf Center.
The Rain Man event was co-sponsored by the UC Santa Barbara Library as part of the UCSB Reads program.
