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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790785271
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0790785277
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 01, 2004
Running Time: 121 minutes
Sales Rank: 15994
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: December 23, 1988
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Product Description:
After the death of his son macon a travel writer seems to be sleep walking through life. Macons wife is having trouble too & thinks it would be best if the two split up. After macon meets a strange woman who seems to bring him back down to earth macons wife wants to try again. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 02/08/2005 Starring: William Hurt Geena Davis Run time: 121 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Lawrence Kasdan
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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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Rating:  - From An Intentional Movie Goer
One of the most insensitive questions I ever heard a media journalist pose to an actor was just after the 1989 Academy Awards had been handed out and a TV reporter asked a seemingly besotted Kathleen Turner about her co-star Geena Davis's Oscar winning performance. "When you're making a film, can you just tell when one of your fellow actors is turning in an Oscar worthy performance." Kathleen, as seemed her wont at the time, put on an affected Spanish accent and sort of Spanish danced around the ... Read More
Rating:  - Deeply Moving and Richly Rewarding
William Hurt is absolutely brilliant as a man so damaged and insulated from his own life that he is about to implode in Lawrence Kasdan's adaptation of Anne Tyler's novel, perhaps the director's finest moment.
Hurt is a father who cannot make sense of the random act of violence in which his son has been killed. In so much pain he is unable to comfort his equally traumatized wife, his marriage finally falls apart because he has decided to accept evil in the world and isolate himself from ... Read More
Rating: - 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 ... Read More
Rating: - All-Star Cast in This 80's Classic Book-To-Film Adaptation
Well, this film has everything that you could expect in a Lawrence Kasdan film. I must say that the 80's were good to William Hurt who appeared in many Oscar-nominated films (Broadcast News, Accidental Tourist, Children of a Lesser God, Kiss of the Spider Woman, etc). This quiet film suddenly got the attention of the Academy, and it deserved the attention. The supporting cast is wonderful especially the Leary's household (brothers and sister). Kathleen Turner's small role deserves credit, but it's Geena ... Read More
Rating: - The Accidental Tourist
My order arrived very quickly and was in perfect shape. It made a fine birthday present for a friend who had just read the book.We had not been able to find a copy of this "oldie" in rental outlets but found it on amazon.Well done.
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