What is The Rain People about?

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Francis Ford Coppola, with a beard, sits on a camera dolly surrounded by crew and actors on the set of The Godfather: Part II, with storefronts in the background. — Francis Ford Coppola American filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola won the Oscar for best director for *The Godfather: Part II* (1974).

The Rain People (1969) is a film written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola that follows a pregnant housewife from Long Island who decides to leave her husband and embark on a journey on the road. During her travels, she encounters several people, most notably a former football player suffering from a brain injury, played by James Caan, and a policeman from Nebraska, played by Robert Duvall.1