The Rain People (1969) Reviews & Ratings

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The Rain People reviews

The Rain People holds a 6.6/10 average from 84 TMDB ratings.

**_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 “…
— Wuchak (7/10)

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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