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The Rain People

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The Rain People	comment	The Rain People is a 1969 American drama film written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola.Long Island housewife Natalie Ravenna (Shirley Knight) learns that she's pregnant. Feeling that she's not ready to accept the responsibilities of motherhood, she abruptly leaves her husband and their stifling marriage one morning to go on a road trip with no particular destination.In West Virginia she picks up a hitchhiker, former college football player Jimmy "Killer" Kilgannon (James Caan). Natalie is attracted to the handsome Killer and charmed by his unassuming personality, until she realizes that his simplemindedness is the result of a brain injury he sustained while playing football. The pair travel all the way to Nebraska, where she abandons him. When she's pulled over for speeding, Gordon (Robert Duvall), the officer who stopped her, finds Natalie attractive and asks her out on a date. But it turns out that Jimmy isn't out of her life after all.This low-budget, slightly experimental film won some admirers when it was released but was largely ignored. But after Coppola's later fame it gained a cult following, reappraised as an early attempt to deal with feminist themes in film. It also marked the beginning of Coppola's friendship with George Lucas, who worked as an assistant on the film and directed (in one of his early credits) Filmmaker, a short making-of documentary showing behind-the-scenes footage as well as bits of Coppola's life (it also features a scene of Francis without his beard, if you can believe that).
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The Rain People / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Rain People / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Jimmy tells Natalie a cryptic story about people made of rain who melt away when they cry. It might be a fractured memory of his past.
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The Rain People / int_1b9079be	type	Snooping Little Kid
The Rain People / int_1b9079be	comment	Snooping Little Kid: Rosalie.
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The Rain People / int_22a27b19	type	Alpha Bitch
The Rain People / int_22a27b19	comment	Alpha Bitch: Jimmy's college girlfriend Ellen.
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The Rain People / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
The Rain People / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: A few of the driving scenes count.
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The Rain People / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Rain People / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Jimmy is shot to death saving Natalie from an Attempted Rape by Gordon, and she has a nervous breakdown afterwards.
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The Rain People / int_5670cddb	type	Troubled Backstory Flashback
The Rain People / int_5670cddb	comment	Troubled Backstory Flashback: We see quick-cut flashbacks for the three main characters depicting the key moments in their lives that led them to where they are now.
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The Rain People / int_6393c3ab	type	RoadMovie
The Rain People / int_6393c3ab	comment	Road Movie: A depressing example. Rather than symbolizing freedom, the road ultimately leads to despair. Still, the film features some great location shooting in various small towns throughout West Virginia, Tennessee and Nebraska.
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The Rain People / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
The Rain People / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: A lot of the video covers over the years use a publicity still showing Shirley Knight holding a gun in the air while Robert Duvall kisses her breast, implying that it's a sexy thriller, rather than a moody character study.
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The Rain People / int_8387bb18	type	Good Girls Avoid Abortion
The Rain People / int_8387bb18	comment	Good Girls Avoid Abortion: In her phone calls back to her husband Vinny, Natalie begs him to let her have an abortion. He's adamantly opposed at first, but later says he'll let her do it if she'll just come back home.
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The Rain People / int_84c5ec0b	type	Free-Range Children
The Rain People / int_84c5ec0b	comment	Free-Range Children: Gordon is having trouble raising his daughter Rosalie and lets her roam around unsupervised most of the time.
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The Rain People / int_87572663	type	Wrong Side of the Tracks
The Rain People / int_87572663	comment	Wrong Side of the Tracks: Gordon lives in a small trailer in a run-down trailer park. He used to own a house, but it burned down.
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The Rain People / int_8a1215e0	type	Bratty Teenage Daughter
The Rain People / int_8a1215e0	comment	Bratty Teenage Daughter: Rosalie, Gordon's daughter. She's not quite a teen but fits the description.
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The Rain People / int_8c681acc	type	Third-Person Person
The Rain People / int_8c681acc	comment	Third-Person Person: Played for Drama. When Natalie gets anxious she starts referring to herself as "she" or "the lady". This might be a symptom of some deeper mental health issues.
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The Rain People / int_a18fda9c	type	Dumb Muscle
The Rain People / int_a18fda9c	comment	Dumb Muscle: Killer is a tragic example.
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The Rain People / int_bec82f41	type	Anti-Hero
The Rain People / int_bec82f41	comment	Antihero: Natalie is a bit self-centered and irresponsible, but also clearly someone who's suffered a lot and deserved the chance to break away from her life the way she did.
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The Rain People / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Rain People / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Bonnie and Clyde is advertised on a drive-in theater marquee.
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The Rain People / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
The Rain People / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Gordon's daughter Rosalie at first just seems like a brat who's there to demonstrate how tough he has it as a single father, but she ultimately shoots Jimmy dead.
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The Rain People / int_e150c4c7	type	Manchild
The Rain People / int_e150c4c7	comment	Manchild: Killer's injury has turned him into one.
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The Rain People / int_e303d198	type	Whole-Plot Reference
The Rain People / int_e303d198	comment	Whole-Plot Reference: The main storyline can be seen as Of Mice and Men with a woman in the role of George.
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The Rain People / int_e52a0cac	type	He Who Must Not Be Seen
The Rain People / int_e52a0cac	comment	He Who Must Not Be Seen: We only see Natalie's husband Vinny in flashbacks and photographs, but hear his voice on the telephone a lot.
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