just caught the rain people on turner classic movies late one night. the film was released in 1969. shirley knight stars as natalie and a long island housewife who  exact reasons unknown  leaves her husband and embarks on a road trip and not knowing exactly where she is going. natalie is also newly pregnant and which complicates things. along the way and she picks up a brain damaged ex football player jimmy (james caan) and who has been kicked out of his college and is hitchhiking. there are many twists and turns along the way between these two and as natalie struggles to take care of jimmy and she begins to realize he is mentally limited and cannot take care of himself. she is going through her own struggles and needless to say and and in no position to care for him. natalie appears to be a woman on the edge of a nervous breakdown at times while she makes some odd phone calls to her husband and who begs her to come home. natalie tries to dump jimmy several times and only to have him re enter her life through circumstances. a young robert duvall plays a strange and troubled cop who befriends natalie. you get the sense all along that this film is going to end badly and and it does. this film is certainly uneven at times and and the script is somewhat lacking. francis ford coppola directed this and and of course he would soon become immensely famous in the next few years for directing the godfather. the actors are good ones and needless to say and as they all would have futures ahead of them in film. shirley knight is the least known of the three and although she is also underrated as an actor. james caan is especially effective here and he seems to just inhabit this character. this film remains little more than a curiosity now and no doubt because it is an early movie of coppola  and and i confess i had never heard of it. so god bless turner classic movies for bringing it to a new audience. 
just caught the rain people on turner classic movies late one night. the film was released in 1969. shirley knight stars as natalie and a long island housewife who  exact reasons unknown  leaves her husband and embarks on a road trip and not knowing exactly where she is going. natalie is also newly pregnant and which complicates things. along the way and she picks up a brain damaged ex football player jimmy (james caan) and who has been kicked out of his college and is hitchhiking. there are many twists and turns along the way between these two and as natalie struggles to take care of jimmy and she begins to realize he is mentally limited and cannot take care of himself. she is going through her own struggles and needless to say and and in no position to care for him. natalie appears to be a woman on the edge of a nervous breakdown at times while she makes some odd phone calls to her husband and who begs her to come home. natalie tries to dump jimmy several times and only to have him re enter her life through circumstances. a young robert duvall plays a strange and troubled cop who befriends natalie. you get the sense all along that this film is going to end badly and and it does. this film is certainly uneven at times and and the script is somewhat lacking. francis ford coppola directed this and and of course he would soon become immensely famous in the next few years for directing the godfather. the actors are good ones and needless to say and as they all would have futures ahead of them in film. shirley knight is the least known of the three and although she is also underrated as an actor. james caan is especially effective here and he seems to just inhabit this character. this film remains little more than a curiosity now and no doubt because it is an early movie of coppola  and and i confess i had never heard of it. so god bless turner classic movies for bringing it to a new audience. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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