Coppola's mundane and melancholy late ’60’s arthouse road movie
A 30-ish wife on Long Island (Shirley Knight) needs to just get away and so enters her station wagon and drives west. To where? She doesn’t know, but she picks up an ex-college football player (James Caan) before meeting a motorcycle cop (Robert Duvall).
“The Rain People” (1969) was made three years before Francis Ford Coppola became famous with “The Godfather.” It was his first movie ...