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James Caan
Jimmy Kilgannon
Shirley Knight
Natalie Ravenna
Robert Duvall
Gordon
Marya Zimmet
Rosalie
Tom Aldredge
Mr. Alfred
Laurie Crews
Ellen
Andrew Duncan
Artie
Margaret Fairchild
Marion
Sally Gracie
Beth
Alan Manson
Lou
Robert Modica
Vinny Ravenna
Garrett Cassell
Farmer (uncredited)
Eleanor Coppola
Gordon's Wife (uncredited)
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Review 1DiscussionA review by Wuchak
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Written by Wuchak on Sat Sep 21 2024
**_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 inspi...
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Facts
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
750000.00
Revenue
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Keywords
- runaway
- housewife
- hitchhiker
- pregnant woman
- road movie