When a housewife finds out she is pregnant, she runs out of town looking for freedom to reevaluate her life decisions.When a housewife finds out she is pregnant, she runs out of town looking for freedom to reevaluate her life decisions.When a housewife finds out she is pregnant, she runs out of town looking for freedom to reevaluate her life decisions.
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Laura Crews
- Ellen
- (as Laurie Crews)
Garrett Cassell
- Farmer
- (uncredited)
Eleanor Coppola
- Gordon's Wife
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThe parade scene was filmed in Chattanooga, Tennessee on Veterans' Day. The students in the band were not aware of what was happening. In fact, reading the lips of a majorette, she can be seen asking, "Who was that guy?" as James Caan was weaving through the parade.
- GoofsWhen Natalie first leaves her husband, she drives into a tunnel and emerges from on the west side of Manhattan. That is, she has driven east through the Lincoln Tunnel, presumably heading east. But immediately after, she stops at a phone booth to call her husband, saying she is in Pennsylvania, which is in the opposite direction. Had the intention to suggest a westward journey, she could have driven west through the tunnel to emerge in New Jersey.
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Jimmy Kilgannon: You hurt me!
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Perhaps Coppola's most underrated film.
Of all his films it would appear that Francis Ford Coppola is particularly fond of "The Rain People", a very modest and some might say 'arty' drama he made early in his career. Like a lot of American films popular at the time it's a 'road movie' with Shirley Knight as the young wife who ups and leaves her husband in the middle of the night, gets in her car and drives West for no paricular reason she can think of, meeting on her journey James Caan, (brain-damaged football player), and Robert Duvall, (randy motorcycle cop). She also happens to be pregnant and, like so many Americans in movies at the time, has gone off to 'find herself'.
Coppola says it was a personal project and there are some people who think it's his first masterpiece but it wasn't a hit and despite Coppola's name on the credits has become something of a lost movie. Knight is excellent as she mopes about and, you might say, teasing any man who comes her way while Duvall and especially Caan match her at every turn. You could say it's a quintessential American film of its time, a 'movie-brat' movie if there ever was one and Coppola's first real 'signature' picture, (though I do have a soft-spot for the wonderful "Finian's Rainbow" which preceeded it). If you do get a chance to track this down it is certainly well worth seeing.
Coppola says it was a personal project and there are some people who think it's his first masterpiece but it wasn't a hit and despite Coppola's name on the credits has become something of a lost movie. Knight is excellent as she mopes about and, you might say, teasing any man who comes her way while Duvall and especially Caan match her at every turn. You could say it's a quintessential American film of its time, a 'movie-brat' movie if there ever was one and Coppola's first real 'signature' picture, (though I do have a soft-spot for the wonderful "Finian's Rainbow" which preceeded it). If you do get a chance to track this down it is certainly well worth seeing.
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- Liebe niemals einen Fremden
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- Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA(Veterans Day parade)
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- $750,000 (estimated)
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