1988 Directed by Lawrence Kasdan
After the death of his son, travel writer Macon Leary seems to be sleep walking through life. Macon's wife is having similar problems. They separate, and Macon meets a strange, outgoing woman who brings him 'back down to earth', but his wife soon thinks their marriage is still worth another try.
El turista accidental, Voyageur malgré lui, Turista per caso, O Turista Acidental, Un tropiezo llamado amor
An extremely bland and forgettable movie with one of the worst color pallets I’ve ever seen. You’d think that the screenplay and the performances would be strong but you can tell that no one clearly cared even in the slightest so BRAVA!! Of course the Oscars nominated it… 😒
**Part of the Best Picture Project**
In which Geena Davis plays a quirky woman who seems to have very little of a life beyond her desire to get William Hurt out his depression and see the value of life again.
IF ONLY THERE WAS A TROPE TO DESCRIBE THIS KIND OF WOMAN.
The Accidental Tourist. 1988. Directed by Lawrence Kasdan.
Lawrence Kasdan’s screenplay of Anne Tyler’s book is brilliant. The script was well written. However, Geena Davis could have been given more lines. Nevertheless, in my opinion, Davis’s character Muriel was the best medicine for Hurt’s character Macon. Macon son died and due to this Macon was extremely depressed. In addition, his wife Sarah portrayed by Kathleen Turner asked for separation. Macon continues grinding away at life but not thriving until he meets Muriel who has a son of her own named Alexander.
With the aforementioned variables at play, the film moves with great cinematography an adequate score. This is not an action packed suspense or thriller but, it is a genuinely…
“I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.”
This is unquestionably a forgotten film of American cinema. Since I don't see many people logging it on here, I wanted to watch it for myself and give my unsolicited opinion. The plot is surprisingly gripping, and the film has strong dialogue and a solid script. While subtle in nature, which might bore others, I did not find this aspect to be a major issue. I enjoyed how the film examined the various meanings of love and conveyed the idea that you don't really have to live life according to a schedule. However, I thought…
"It's wrong to think we could plan everything, as though it were a business trip. I don't believe that anymore. Things just happen."
This is a quiet little movie. Sure, it won awards and has movie stars, but it's still just a simple, soft-spoken story, not the usual Hollywood flash. It's a comedy/drama, dipping a toe in both equally, like life itself, I suppose.
William Hurt plays Macon Leary, a travel writer whose son has died tragically and then his wife leaves him. His dog, a corgi named Edward (the real star of the show, a major scene-stealing fuzzball), has not been the same since Mason's son died. Enter Muriel, a kooky dog trainer, who takes an instant liking to…
After the passing of his son in a shooting, a man's life whose work is tour around around the world starts to crumble down but there might be life at the end of the tunnel.
Before there was "Solo: A Star Wars Story," Lawrence Kasdan wrote a movie that encapsulates to perfection the word average. Its hard to call this romantic movie, a bad movie, but its also hard to call it good. The script has his moments, there are some endearment and cute moments, but it felt all generic.
Performances are serviceable, though if you are really into dogs you might get pissed at Geena Davis' character's form of training, which often than not borderlines into the realm of animal cruelty.
All in all, if you are seriously into romantic movies from the 80s, you may enjoy this, otherwise I guess you can skip this.
DNF
I’m sorry, but unless Lawrence Kasdan is working off a George Lucas story, with ample pulp to drown out the pretention, his writing just comes off as fucking unbearable to me. I bailed on this after 45 minutes to go listen to my ten-year-old practice violin. She’s been playing for about three days now, and shows zero inclination for the instrument, but still manages to make better noise with it than this overrated hack can make with his pen.
William Hurt: "oh no woe is me Geena Davis and Kathleen Turner are fighting over me pls help me"
One thing before I get to the film: the Academy should have given Kathleen Turner an Oscar for her part. It's almost criminal that she didn't get an Oscar for her part as Sarah Leary.
William Hurt plays Macon Leary, a man broken by the death of his son - an event responsible for the disintegration of his marriage. He only comes out of his self-imposed shell when he meets a shrewd, aggressive young woman (Davis), who works at an animal shelter, and who couldn't be less his type. Things tend to go another way than he expected beforehand.
This well-crafted, very faithful adaptation of Anne Tyler's novel is slow and takes its time, but that doesn't bother me because it's going somewhere and the characters and their development throughout the film are strong. I do bother the fact that this film is still quite underappreciated.
150/200
Absolutely offensive that when you search for William Hurt on here the first things that show up are those hideously chintzy Marvel posters. Also wanted to say Hurt could still show up in Robin Hood or The King's Daughter and make those movies great for a few seconds.
www.rogerebert.com/tributes/william-hurt-1950-2022
This is a movie that makes for a fascinating time capsule now (Bill Pullman doesn't have the voice yet!). Pretty amazing to think there were once movies about relationships and loss that were only occasionally hamstrung by an overeager subtext. Shot competently if not particularly expressively, with an eye towards rendering environments in as melancholy a fashion possible in order to reflect the mental state of our sad sack hero.…
Are we just never going to talk about William Hurt being in 5 Best Picture nominees in 6 years? And this was when you were limited to 5 slots. Brad Pitt starred in 4 consecutive nominees but 3 of those were when the field was widened to up to 10 films. Bill Hurt was on an Oscar bait tear in the 80s and everyone's forgotten it.
Following Up in the Air, this is unintentionally the second movie I’ve seen this month where a middle aged white man gets paid to talk about how to pack a suitcase for business purposes.
