**_Coppola's mundane and melancholy late ’60’s arthouse road movie_** A 30-ish wife on Long Island (Shirley Knight) needs to just get away and so enters her station wagon and drives west. To where? She doesn’t know, but she picks up an ex-college football player (James Caan) and spends time in West Virgina before making it to Nebraska, where she meets a motorcycle cop (Robert Duvall). “The Rain People” (1969) was made three years before Francis Ford Coppola became famous with “The Godfather.” It was his first movie in which he had total creative control, writing and directing on the road...