Corrected entry: When Charlie sees a small-town doctor to get some advice how to deal with Raymond, the doctor asks Raymond to do some mathematical stunts. He multiplies 312*123 and 4343*1234 without thinking, which is unbelievable enough even for an autistic savant, but the square root of 2130 with 8 decimals after the dot, again without a bit of thinking, is certainly too much. (00:59:50)
NancyFelix
1st Nov 2003
Rain Man (1988)
2nd Nov 2003
Rain Man (1988)
Corrected entry: Not too long after Charlie and Raymond leave Cincinnati by car they come across a bad accident. Raymond gets out of the car and refuses to continue driving on an interstate. According to a sign they are on interstate 245 WEST, which a) I couldn't find on a map in the Cincinnati area and b) shouldn't exist anyway as all interstates with odd numbers go in north-south direction. (00:48:00)
Correction: In all U.S. cities "loops" (joined interstates that travel around the city are designated with a prefix "2"), often are listed as "west", "east", "north", or "south". This is to give the driver a general idea of which way the loop travels, and often change in transit. In major cities all joined interstates are listed with their direction.
Correction: Raymond's abilities are exaggerated, but not as much as you think. See, for example, http://www.bol.ucla.edu/~changc/page2_5.html which describes a man who can give the square root of a 4 digit number in 4 seconds (although it doesn't say to what precision). In the film, Raymond thinks for 2 seconds or so about the square-root, so his skills are not that unbelieveable.
jle