The Hollywood film Rain Man is about the Autistic disorder Savant syndrome. In Rain Man, Raymond Babbitt (played by Dustin Hoffman) has Savant Syndrome and his brother Charlie Babbitt (played by Tom Cruise) finds out about Raymond being his brother and that he is good with numbers so Charlie decides to use his brother to make money. Over the course of the time that Charlie and Raymond are together, they become closer and Charlie is not just using Raymond for money. Hollywood portrays Savant syndrome accurately compared to what the APA says about Savant.

Savant is a unique form of autism that has its own special skills, which set Savant apart from all other forms of autism. The most common skills found in savant patients are splinter skills. Some of the most common behaviors associated with splinter skills are memorization of music, sports, trivia, maps and historical facts. There are two other forms of savant, talented savants and prodigious savant. Talented savant is when a patient is very talented in one given field such as math.
The word Autism can be define in many ways, but according to one definition, “Autism is a disorder of neural development characterized be impaired social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior. These signs all begin before three years-old.

Dustin Hoffman's role in the movie Rain Man does fit the description of autistic persons. In the movie Rain Man, the things that affected For example, when Raymond heard loud sounds, he starts banging his head with his hands because he doesn't like it because it gets him scared and he doesn't know how to calm down. Another one is he doesn't like going on airplanes, both because he read about so many airplanes crashes and if he might go on an airplane he would be scared that it would happen to him.

It was hard for Rain Man (Dustin Hoffman) to understand humor in daily life because this is another obstacle autistic people go through because it is not easy trying to each an autistic person humor because they can't laugh at you when you're saying a joke to them. However in the movie, Rain Man kept saying something about first base and second base in baseball. Charlie Babbitt was his brother and he told him “you will never find who's on First base it's just a joke” the response that Rain Main said to Charlie Babbitt was I will find it he said. It was difficult trying to laugh with Rain Man because he wasn't a humor type of guy so it was hard to get a joke out of him rather than laughing with a normal person who doesn't have autism and know what a joke is when they hear it. Raymond has autism, which means he has a social interaction problems and he cannot break his routines for doing things. If an autistic’s routine was to be broken or altered they will panic and often scream and whine, like a toddler.