Biography
Barry Morrow (born June 12, 1948) is an Academy Award-winning American screenwriter and producer. He wrote the story and co-wrote the screenplay for Rain Man. Morrow was born in Austin, Minnesota. He studied at St. Olaf College, leaving in 1970 one credit short of graduation. After submitting his screenplay of Rain Man for independent study credit, he received his degree in 1989.
Known For
Complete Filmography

All You Ever Wished For
2018
Director, Writer, Producer
A young New York fashion executive's trip to Milan takes a bad turn when he is kidnapped and whisked off to an Alpine village to be held for ransom mo...

Remember Sunday
2013
Teleplay
A lonely, down-on-her-luck waitress meets a handsome, quirky jewelry store clerk and thinks that maybe, finally, she's met Mr. Right. The more Molly g...
Mercy of the Sea
2003
Writer
A woman who lost most of her family during the war in Croatia and breakup of Yugoslavia is informed a decade later that her son has been found.

Race the Sun
1996
Writer, Producer
A bunch of high school misfits in Hawaii, introduced by their new teacher, attend a science fair in which they draw up inspiration to build their own ...

Virgin Mary
1995
Writer
In 1981 in Medjugorje (BA), a group of kids claim that Virgin Mary appeared to them on a hill. The local priest believes them and spreads the word. Re...

The Disappearance of Vonnie
1994
Executive Producer
Corrine Kaczmarek is seeking desperately for the truth in the case of the mysterious disappearance of her sister Vonnie.

Christmas on Division Street
1991
Writer
A good-natured homeless man and an ill-tempered student become good friends.

The Karen Carpenter Story
1989
Writer
Story of the meteoric rise and sudden fall of Karen Carpenter, who became a famous singer before battling anorexia and bulimia. This made-for-TV movie...
Quiet Victory: The Charlie Wedemeyer Story
1988
Writer
Film that tells the story of Los Gatos (California) high school football coach Charlie Wedemeyer. At 31, onetime football pro Wedemeyer is living the ...

Rain Man
1988
Screenplay, Story
When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant olde...

A Conspiracy of Love
1987
Writer
A woman's husband apparently has deserted her and their daughter. So she decides to get on with her life which might include dissolving their union an...

Bill
1981
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Bill, an intellectually disabled man, ventures out into the world for the first time, having spent most of his life in a dreary inner city institution...

Bill
1981
Story
Bill, an intellectually disabled man, ventures out into the world for the first time, having spent most of his life in a dreary inner city institution...