The Accidental Tourist
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Movie Reviews of The Accidental Tourist
Movie Review: Easy to watch
Summary: 4 Stars
Everyone else has related the story of this film but I have a different interpretation about motivations. Macon's family of origin is upper-middle class but Very Peculiar and I think that is the reason he really falls for the Gina Davis character. She is also Peculiar. Kathleen Turner is so perfectly beautiful and perfect in every way and so is John Hurt as her husband. But Kathleen is always belly aching about him. I was vexed when I thought they were getting back together. However, I dont know why Geena Davis chose Macon; probably because he is a good provider and is good looking, the usual gambit. The boy is refreshingly not cute at all but of course, the dog is cute. Its a good movie. Macon's siblings adore the beautiful kathleen so, I wonder if he will lose his job and his family of origin due to leaving her in the lurch.Movie Review: Slow but enjoyable
Summary: 4 Stars
This film is a little slow in parts, but not to the point where you want to fast forward scenes. No, it is a pleasant film which you can easily sit through and then feel somewhat wonderful by the end of it. I enjoyed the roles played by all of the three key actors: Hurt, Turner and Davis.
It's the sweet story of a husband and wife who are separating after the loss of their child. Along the way, he meets an odd divorcee who basically is the 'one' but he doesnt realise this until much later. All of the key characters are at some crossroad in their lives, even the precious dog Edward.
Worth adding to your collection!
Movie Review: It's about time
Summary: 4 Stars
Having to watch this on cruddy laserdisc, it is reason to celebrate now that TAT is on DVD. Such tenderness and warmth between Nathan and Muriel - Geena Davis' Academy Award is richly deserved and she is the star here.
Presented in its original Panavision framing, this is a must pick-up for fans.
Movie Review: It's about time
Summary: 4 Stars
A long overdue release on one of Wm. Hurt's best flicks. Now if Anchor Bay could release "Until The End Of The World" everything would be good.Movie Review: * * 1/2 - Not profound, just slooow
Summary: 3 Stars
I first saw this movie in the theaters in 1988 and didn't really know what to make of it when the lights came on. Recently, older and, hopefully, wiser, I decided to revisit it. Again, I didn't really know what to make of it, this time when the DVD popped out.
This movie wants so hard to be deep. But it's really rather hokey. We don't get any indication why Muriel has the instant hots for William Mumble-Mumble Hurt. She seems to hit on him from the first mention that he's living alone. Is that what a sympathetic character is, a man-trap? After she practically sucks him into her house, she gets angry that he isn't completely reaccommodating his life for her. At the end, she follows him to Paris--shades of a stalker--but it's never explained how she knew he was precisely then going to Paris, what airline/flight he was taking, or where he was staying. The movie never explains these things because it can't. And the ending is just silly. What is there in the last scene to make her think his change is permanent? (I know, I know, she can "see it in his eyes." Yeah...) Frankly, I'm not sure what they see in each other, other than he's a source of income for her and her son, just as I never get the attraction between the book editor, played by a very young Bill Pullman, and Hurt's sister Rose. After being invited over for dinner Pullman is suddenly *nuts* about Rose, even though they're both duller than a PBS fundraiser. They don't seem to share one special on-screen moment, which makes them very similar to Hurt and Davis. Then there's buried resentment in the marriage between Hurt and Turner, but we never really see where it came from or why it's there. In one scene Turner asks him some relatively innocuous questions that make him explode with repressed rage, and the worried look on Turner's face is terrifically real. But earlier Davis had also set off his emotional trigger after a homemade dinner with some similar inquiries--so are we to believe a marriage with Davis would be any less bumpy?
There are some good performances here, particularly by Geena Davis and the dog. Hurt does his usual lost-in-space routine--worked best for me in The Big Chill--and Turner is all huffy-voiced and legs, sort of an 80s Lauren Bacall. (Sad what she's turned into lately.) But all this talk about depth and rich character and all that..sorry, it's trying too hard on too little story and too shallow character. John Williams contributes one of his better scores--for once, he's not smothering the movie in sentiment--and John Baily, who also worked with director Kasdan on The Big Chill, shoots it all very stylishly, with a great many scenes at twilight, as we'd expect. But somehow all the big names in the cast and crew fall flat for me.
As usual, Roger Ebert write a better review for this movie than the movie is itself.