Goofs

The movie credits show that Charlie and Raymond's last name is spelled "Babbitt." However, the letter Sanford left for Charlie begins: "To my son, Charles Babbit."

When Raymond hears the strange noise in Charlie's room, there is bright daylight through the curtains in both rooms. Upon being brought back to his room shortly after, Raymond remarks that it is several minutes before 11 pm (bedtime). When Charlie turns off the lights for Raymond to go to sleep, the room is totally dark.

Dr. Bruner implies that Raymond has been at Wallbrook since 1960, but Raymond later says he was taken there January 21, 1965.

Just before Raymond gets on the train, the woman who passes by him and Charlie on the right wearing a light blouse and jean shorts gets on the same train twice; once after passing Raymond and Charlie, and then again just before Raymond gets on the train.

When Charlie and Ray first arrive in Las Vegas, they are traveling southbound on the Strip as evidenced by the Westward Ho passing left to right on Ray's side of the car. A few shots later they are passing the Flamingo Hilton in a northerly direction. Finally, a shot facing south shows the car again passing the Westward Ho in a southbound direction.

"The People's Court" and "Wheel of Fortune" are syndicated TV shows, and, therefore, air at different times of the day in different TV markets - but Raymond is able to watch them at the same time each day (a change in the TV schedule would have been traumatic for him) during his cross-country trip.

While crossing the Suspension Bridge in Cincinnati (the 'singing bridge' that Raymond hums along to), the traffic in the background suggests that the bridge is either four lanes, or a one-way street. In fact, the bridge has only two lanes, one northbound and one southbound.

At the end of the movie, Raymond is seen boarding the Amtrak train Desert Wind in Los Angeles. The train is shown to have a single-decker Amfleet consist. The Desert Wind was actually a Superliner double-decker train.

When Raymond deliberately busts his hand by accepting a queen, so his brother could receive the next queen (making Charlie "double down" then have 21), Raymond could've just stayed making the dealer get the 2nd queen and "bust" his hand, hence both Charlie & Raymond would've won! In addition, no casino in the world would have let that same dealer deal at that same table....the casinos always switch them out (especially when the player's winning).

According to the EPA's 420 publication, Importing Vehicles and Engines into the United States, in 1998 the EPA allowed owners a one-time exemption for importing their foreign cars into the U.S. The EPA does not meet car buyers at the docks, and the idea that Charlie would have had to have the engine modifications right there is ridiculous. Charlie could have easily gotten his one-time EPA waiver for his four Lamborghini's; thus, his having to pay a $10,000 modification for each car before leaving the dock is completely without merit. In the worst case, at the time Charlie could have taken delivery of the vehicles and sold them to the prospective owners, the latter of which was THEIR responsibility to follow EPA guidelines, since Charlie was only a middleman, a broker, which could have also had any required modifications deferred to a later time. Consequently, Charlie's constant and frantic phone calls back to his home base about the cars "becoming legal" were totally unnecessary.

The scene when Ray gets out of the car on the interstate the posted interstate sign says West 275 (odd number). This is incorrect. The Interstate System is based on a grid, with east-west routes bearing even numbers and north-south routes bearing odd numbers. Therefore the sign should've had an even number going west. However, triple-digit interstates such as I-275 are auxiliary freeways from its parent highway (in this case Interstate 75) and can travel and be signed in any one of the main cardinal directions. In the case of I-275, it is a ring freeway around Cincinnati, so at some points in would be going in, and signed, east-west.

Throughout the movie, several cars are seen tailgating the Buick trying to get into the shot, and their positions vary from scene to scene.

After Ray gets on the train to go home, the scene of Charlie looking is in a loop, as evidenced by his head weaving back and forth.

When Charlie and Ray drive back to Las Vegas, an extra can be seen darting back into a nearby building as their Buick drives by.

Raymond takes pictures throughout the movie with a 126 film camera. We see, under the credits, the pictures he had taken and they are all rectangular in shape, when 126 film makes square pictures.

When Charlie and Raymond are leaving Cincinnati, the sun is still up. Later, when Raymond gets out of the car on the side of the highway, it appears that the sun has been down for a few hours. At this point, a sign for Interstate 275 is visible on the side of the road. I-275 makes a large loop around Cincinnati area, which would suggest that they had been driving in a circle for a few hours.

Reflection of crew members on the hood of the Buick when Raymond is about to drive in Las Vegas.

When Charlie, Raymond and Susanna are in the casino on the way to Raymond's date, just before Charlie is asked to see head of security you can see in the mirrored pillar the reflection of a woman motioning extras to walk past the camera.

From the time they left the farmhouse in western Oklahoma, they supposedly passed some country with mountains in the background (west) between there and Amarillo, Texas. There are no mountains in that part of western Oklahoma (though some small ones exist farther south near Lawton and Altus) - and the nearest "mountain" on that route would be Tucumcari Mountain.

In the opening shot, a Lamborghini is being lowered by a crane with the skyline of downtown Los Angeles in the background. Given the location of the LA city hall, this is taking place on the east side of downtown.

Subsequent shots reveal that the car is being unloaded off of a cargo ship in the Port of Los Angeles. The Vincent Thomas bridge is visible in the background and (in some weird composite shot) the LA city hall is seen directly east of the VT Bridge. In reality, downtown LA is approximately 25 miles to the north.

So in other words, in Rain Man's world, the LA Harbor is either located in East LA nowhere near the ocean, or downtown LA is located on the San Pedro Bay.

The laundromat scene was supposed to be in Tucumcari, New Mexico. The town of Tucumcari is larger and has no tall, red-rock mountains in the background. It's on the edge of the high plains, but does have some small mesas west of town.

While watching Charlie play blackjack, one of the casino security officers says that "no one can count through a six deck shoe". In fact, this is quite possible for someone with just basic math skills to do using the "hi-lo" counting method. A security officer of any major casino should know this.

In the blackjack scene when the dealer pays a $4000 winning bet, he is one chip off, thus stealing $100 from Charlie.

Early in the movie Charlie is told someone else is getting his $3 million. Later, Charlie says Ray inherited $2 million.

When Raymond is insisting that he get his boxers at K-Mart in Cincinnati, he repeatedly states that K-Mart's address is 400 Oak Street. That, however, is the address of the Vernon Manor, the hotel at which Raymond, Charlie, and Susannah stay.