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List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $12.99 You Save: $1.99 Features • Anamorphic • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • Dubbed • DVD-Video • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 23 December, 1988 DVD Release : 01 June, 2004 |
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The Accidental Tourist description Lawrence Kasdan adapted Anne Tyler's novel into this mopey comedy which, oddly enough, took the New York Film Critics Circle's best picture award (a case of strategic voting getting out of hand). William Hurt plays a depressed travel writer struggling to come to terms with his son's death. He buys a dog for companionship, then hires an eccentric dog trainer (Geena Davis, who won an Oscar for her role) to teach it to behave. She, in turn, teaches him to reconnect to life. But as he is beginning to admit his feelings for her to himself, he is blindsided by the return of his estranged wife (Kathleen Turner), who attempts to rekindle their marriage. A muffled, low-key affair--so low-key that it sometimes seems positively stationary. --Marshall Fine |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Anne Tyler books and films are like a bowl of hot soup |
| Anne Tyler is a master of organization of many varied components. When one is in a superstore at checkout and looks at the objects on the conveyor of the person ahead, perhaps with everything from 40 packages of lime jello to a beginner acoustic guitar, one might, in a shopping daze, think about those items and where they are going, such a wide diversity of things, all ending up together. Anne Tyler's characters are like that, different, yet on a journey somewhere where they will reach a compromise, change somewhat, but remain true to themselves, become maybe more accepting of their differences.
This film is one of my all-time favorites. It is one to go to when the world seems cold. It doesn't stray much from the book, and for good reason. The book is one of her best. Some parts of the book and movie are very funny. Much of her humor comes up at moments of perplexity. The cast could not be better. Some of Tyler's characters invite you to love them because one wonders if anyone else could. Tyler has written nearly 20 books, several have been made into films. Many other reviewers have told about the premise of the movie etc., so I won't go into that. Tyler once again seems to drive home a theme, that we should not give up, no matter how alone or different we may be, compromise a little, try something different, relax some, enjoy the consequence. |
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