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Coppola's mundane and melancholy late 60s 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 doesnt know, but she picks up an ex-college football player (James Caan) and spends time in West Virgina before making it to Nebraska, where she meets a motorcycle cop (Robert Duvall).
The Rain People (1969) was made three years before Francis Ford Coppola became famous with The Godfather. It was his first movie in which he had total creative control, writing and directing on the road without producers breathing down his neck. The story was inspired by Francis mother curiously leaving home for a few days when he was a kid. Its about a wo...