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Grand Canyon

1991

Overall rating: 3 out of 5

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Director Lawrence Kasdan's Grand Canyon is a gathering of random events, uniting the film's wildly divergent protagonists. Driving home from an LA Lakers game, Mack (Kevin Kline), an immigration attorney, is stranded in an unsavory part of town when his car breaks down. He is rescued from a gang of hoods by Simon (Danny Glover), an African-American tow truck driver, inaugurating a friendship between these two men. Mack offers to repay Simon's kindness by helping his sister (Tina Lifford) find an apartment in a better neighborhood, and by arranging a blind date between Simon and Jane (Alfre Woodard), a friend of Mack's secretary Dee (Mary Louise Parker). Woven into this fabric are the tribulations of Mack's best friend, a pompous exploitation movie producer (Steve Martin), who is later wounded in a robbery similar to the one threatening Mack at the beginning of the film; of Mack's wife Claire (Mary McDonnell), who adopts an abandoned baby, and disenfranchised son Roberto (Jeremy Sisto); and of Simon's nephew (Patrick Malone), who is contemplating joining a street gang. The title is symbolic, referring to the class-imposed chasms which would normally separate the characters. Kasdan co-wrote the screenplay with his wife Meg.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Grand Canyon details

Format:	15 DVD
Starring:	Alfre Woodard, Danny Glover, Christopher M. Brown, Mary Ellen Trainor, Steve Martin, Kevin Kline, Mary McDonnell, Mary-Louise Parker
Director:	Lawrence Kasdan
Genre:	Drama - General
Studio:	20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT

DVD 1 disc

Name	Discs
Grand Canyon	15 Feature

DVD Information

Run time:	2 hours 9 minutes
Rental release:	Currently unavailable
Main languages:	English
Subtitles:	Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish
Hearing impaired subtitles:	English

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Outstanding

By a customer from Winchester, England , 28 Oct 2004

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This is movie-making at its most thoughtful, intelligent and provocative. Kevin Kline and Steve Martin turn in beautifully nuanced performances that manage to provide the comedy for which they are deservedly renowned but without the mania or slapstick, just subtle, perfectly under-stated, rich character-studies that linger long after the credits have rolled. The same goes for the rest of the cast, without exception. Well worth watching. And perhaps re-watching. Kasdan has given us another gem.
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By a customer from Leyland , 22 Mar 2006

ok Sunday afternoon movie
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Relationships drama

By skeadugenga (148 reviews) from Reading , 24 Jan 2006

At just over 2 hours, this film felt like a lot longer. This is a relationships drama, not a lot happens, people wander about trying to make sense of their lives and their relationships with each other. Very little humour in evidence. Kevin Kline is excellent as always, but Steve Martin hits a really bum note as the producer - he's a cartoon amongst real characters. Danny Glover plays pretty much the only sympathetic character of the bunch, and he's good, its just a shame that the material wasn't better. Not a film I enjoyed.
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The cracks run deep

By RJNeb2 (934 reviews) from London , 15 Oct 2005

Like a dry-run for the more ambitious 'Short Cuts', this remarkable film is apparently about nothing but sneaks up on you and makes you realise that you have to find your place in the world. 6 interconnected characters find life in the war zone that is present day Los Angeles increasingly hard to bear. And then one by one, they become exposed to the little miracles that fill up our days and which we're all too busy to see. America might be going to pot, says Kasdan, but there's always hope. It's a reaffirming thing to learn, and that's what makes this movie great.
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thought provoking

By a customer from Margate Kent England , 13 Jun 2005

well worth a watch if your bored at home for the afternoon. Take the time to think about the events as they unravel during the movie and you will enjoy it a whole lot more, ps. was Steve Martin born with grey hair?
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Superb!

By Aaron Ali from Kent , 04 Feb 2005

A great movie that can make you see life in a different way. This happens to me every time I watch it every few years!
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