RAIN is a retrospective on regrets, a study in how NOT to raise children or repair a marriage. Or, maybe it's a sure-fire recipe for disaster.
Take one indulgent husband & permissive father. Add one selfish wife & juvenile mother. Steam one surly & shameful daughter. Glaze one exploring but innocent young son.
Ignite the whole dish with a lecherous neighbor and a seemingly harmless dose of the Sex, Drugs, Rock n Roll of the '70's, and you have all the tragedy that any one family should ever have to bear in a lifetime compressed into one summer at the beach.
Definitely NOT a "feel-good" movie. But it is a good lesson in a reality to be avoided. Probably 80% of the viewers in a Westernized culture have personally experienced some form of the destructive tragedies included in this portrait of a modern sorrow. Go learn from their mistakes. ***/4
Take one indulgent husband & permissive father. Add one selfish wife & juvenile mother. Steam one surly & shameful daughter. Glaze one exploring but innocent young son.
Ignite the whole dish with a lecherous neighbor and a seemingly harmless dose of the Sex, Drugs, Rock n Roll of the '70's, and you have all the tragedy that any one family should ever have to bear in a lifetime compressed into one summer at the beach.
Definitely NOT a "feel-good" movie. But it is a good lesson in a reality to be avoided. Probably 80% of the viewers in a Westernized culture have personally experienced some form of the destructive tragedies included in this portrait of a modern sorrow. Go learn from their mistakes. ***/4