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The Accidental Tourist
1988 - PG - 2:01
Comedy
Warner Home Video
Directed by Lawrence Kasdan
Starring:
William Hurt
Kathleen Turner
Geena Davis
Bill Pullman
Amy Wright
David Ogden Stiers
Ed Begley, Jr.
Where can you find your favorite fast-food hamburger in Paris? How many packets of laundry soap do you need for a trip to Atlanta? Ask Macon Leary. He's The Accidental Tourist, whose guidebooks are revered by home-loving business travelers who prefer the carpet path between the microwave and the VCR over the flight path between New York and London. And what do you do when your lovely, estranged wife comes back into your life while an irresistibly ditzy dog trainer named Muriel also tugs at your heart? Don't ask Macon. He doesn't have a clue. Not yet at least. The Accidental Tourist, based on 1989 Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Tyler's best-seller, is cause to whoop for joy. Both hilarious and heart-warming, it reteams filmmaker Lawrence Kasdan (The Big Chill, Silverado) with Academy Award winner William Hurt (as Macon) and Kathleen Turner (as Macon's wife) for the first time since their incendiary Body Heat. Joining them is Geena Davis, who gives a luminous, Academy Award-winning performance as bubbly, confident and gawkishly tacky Muriel. She's Macon's opposite. And she unexpectedly broadens his narrow, orderly world. "This odd woman helped me," Macon says. Which is a funny statement. Because odd defines Macon's own screwball kin (Amy Wright, David Ogden Stiers and Ed Begley, Jr.). Holed up in their Victorian home, the Leary's let the phone ring till doomsday instead of answering it (It may be bad news.). And the pantry is organized alphabetically (Elbow macaroni is "E", not "M" please.). Using the Leary system, The Accidental Tourist is "T" for terrific. The New York Film Critics Award as 1988's best film and four Academy Award nominations including Best Picture confirm it. Book passage and you will, too.
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