The Rain People (1969) on Netflix
Long Island housewife Natalie Ravenna learns she is pregnant and leaves her husband Vinny to drive west. She picks up Jimmy "Killer" Kilgannon, a former college football star with a head injury.
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- IMDb6.8/104,837 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes88%
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Plot summary
Natalie Ravenna lives on Long Island with her husband Vinny. Learning she is pregnant, she panics and leaves him asleep at home, driving off in the family station wagon. Her parents are upset when she visits them, and from a gas station she calls Vinny collect to tell him the news and that she is not ready to come back. She heads for California. Along the road she picks up Jimmy "Killer" Kilgannon, a college football star who took a serious head injury in a game and was paid a thousand dollars to leave school. She picked him up hoping for a one-night affair, but changes her mind and gives him a room of his own. He has no family and no place to go, and Natalie wonders whether she can help him when she can barely help herself.
Cast
- Laurie Crewsas Ellen
- Margaret Fairchildas Marion
- Robert Modicaas Vinny
- Garrett Cassellas Farmer (uncredited)
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Rain People (1969)
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- Coppola's friend and fellow director George Lucas worked as Coppola's assistant on The Rain People and made a short 1968 documentary called Filmmaker about the making of the film.
- Rip Torn was originally cast as Gordon in The Rain People but was replaced during filming by Robert Duvall, who was then rooming with James Caan; the two actors and Coppola later re-teamed for The Godfather.
- Coppola's rough cut of The Rain People ran more than four hours long; he and editor Barry Malkin cut it down to under two hours.
- The Rain People was shot over five months across 18 states; to keep transportation costs down, Coppola used a 10-person crew and filled it out with local hires at each location.
