Watch, “Rainman” back to back with, “The Graduate” and you will be amazed at how narrow his acting range really was.
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Unfortunately, I’ve never seen “Rainman”, although I know he was a savant from clips.
I think his character Ratzo Rizzo in “Rhinestone Cowboy” also demonstrated the acting range you referred to above.
To #40. Hoffman in “Tootsie”. He was good.
Re “The Graduate”. If I remember the scene at the church correctly, we had a nice Jewish kid use a large crucifix to block the door from opening so they could flee.
And yes, Katherine Ross was a very beautiful woman.
Another tearjerker would be “Goodby Columbus” with Richard Benjamin and Allie McGraw (another pretty young woman).
If anyone is interested, ask me to tell the story of how I entered the movie theater that night and what happened in the pizza parlor later. Laz would be jealous.