The Rain People

A pair of misfits set out on the road in a film presented from the perspective of a young, middle-class wife searching for self beyond impending motherhood.

  • Director

    Francis Ford Coppola

  • With

    Shirley Knight, James Caan, Robert Duvall

  • USA 1969. 101min

  • Digital 4K

  • Certificate

    12A

Upon realising she is unexpectedly pregnant, young Long Island housewife Natalie flees with her husband’s station wagon. Along the way, she picks up ex-high school football player ‘Killer’, who incurred a brain injury on the field and who is en route to a slim promise of work in West Virginia. Coppola crafts a mournful New Hollywood tale of dissociated social misfits seeking a route to self-understanding.