Dates and Times
- Friday, Jul 11, 2025 2:15pm
- Saturday, Jul 12, 2025 2:15pm
- Monday, Jul 14, 2025 12pm
- Tuesday, Jul 15, 2025 2:10pm
- Wednesday, Jul 16, 2025 7pm
- Thursday, Jul 17, 2025 4:45pm
Details
Stifled by her marriage, a pregnant young woman (Shirley Knight) escapes her Long Island home and embarks on an odyssey across the United States. In her travels she encounters tenderness and tragedy in the form of a former football player (James Caan), who suffered a debilitating head injury that left permanent damage, and a widowed police officer (Robert Duvall) desperately seeking companionship. This early work by director Francis Ford Coppola was the first film produced by American Zoetrope, the deviant studio Coppola and George Lucas co-founded which would empower filmmakers with creative and unconventional approaches to filmmaking. Shot across 18 states with an eight-vehicle crew, THE RAIN PEOPLE is a tender and surprisingly feminist film. It won the Golden Shell at the 1969 San Sebastián International Film Festival, but the film’s poor performance at the box office led Coppola to accept a gig directing THE GODFATHER, which reunited him with Caan and Duvall. DIR/SCR Francis Ford Coppola; PROD Ronald Colby, Bart Patton. U.S., 1969, color, 101 min. RATED R
