Rain Man

Charlie, a self-absorbed young salesman, learns after his father's death that he has an older brother, Raymond, who is autistic and has lived for years in an institution. Charlie removes him and drives him across the country, at first to force a share of the inheritance and gradually to know him.

The film frames autism, institutionalisation and a buried family secret through the recovery of a sibling bond, and through the slow softening of a man who had no memory of his brother. It gives a therapist a widely recognised, if of its time, portrait of difference and late attachment. It won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1989.