Review of The Rain People (1969) by Scott R — 05 Aug 2014

After the lukewarm response to Coppola's first big budget feature ("Finian's Rainbow"), Coppola attempted to go smaller again with this more indie feature about a woman who leaves her husband after discovering she is pregnant, and while traveling meets a former college football layer with brain damage, and a widower highway patrolman.

..and nothing good seems to come from her trip to get away. It is a sad little movie, but fans of the New Hollywood era may enjoy this character study from Francis Ford Coppola, if not just to see what the man directed before his next feature film, the all-time classic "The Godfather".