The Accidental Tourist

Filme fraco, o roteiro é fraco, as cenas são fracas, a história é fraca, o elenco é fraco, e ninguém ajuda a melhorar o filme, os personagens são fracos, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores e relevantes para fazer o filme ser bom.

A solid romance drama with a bit of dark humour. Fairly adult interpretation of relationships rather than glossy Hollywood storyline. Not too bad and has aged ok. Watched on DVD after searching for it for a while.

So frustrating watching William Heard’s character for me. Like Andy said in Shawshank Redemption “get bus living or get busy dying”. Very unique characters. Kathleen Turner is a movie star. This movie made me fall in love with Geena Davis

Dated, boring, odd. The other characters orbit around Macon as if they were paper cut outs on a baby's mobile leaving the impression that only Macon's experience and emotions are real. Then there are the subtle misogynistic undertones such as "like a mother saying 'eat, eat' all those courses forced on you", and that every female character is in some way controlling, bossy, detached or aggressive, and, all the while assuming what men want and think instead of asking them. What's left that is redeemable may have camouflaged the film's faults in the 80's, but today those highlights are overshadowed like mushrooms on a forest floor.

One of the many themes: parents dealing with the loss of a child and the lingering effects and damage to their relationship. How people can fall back into familiar patterns that don't serve them well as they age. The ability of an individual to love an eccentric person---to not see flaws but these qualities as essential to the individuality of that person. That a person can feel safer disclosing their inner most pain and feelings with someone who is almost a stranger than their partner in marriage. There is a lot to this movie, and much of it able to be funny or amusing.

"I hate to travel." "I thought so, so do businessmen. I mean, these folks would rather be at home in their living room. So you will be helping them to pretend that that's where they are." And people act like the desire for remote work was something that millennials just created out of thin air. William Hurt stars as Macon Leary, a man wandering through life in a daze after the death of his young son, saying all the right words but without ever putting any emotion behind them. The title claims that he's a travel writer with a distaste for travel, but honestly that humorous backstory factors so infrequently into the story that he might as well be an insurance salesman. Into this life steps Geena Davis as Muriel, a liberated and passionate single mother who is bound and determined to ensure that Macon confronts his grief and overcomes it. What follows is a combination of dark comedy and drama that is difficult to really immerse yourself in. Though it's obviously a key part of his character, Macon speaks with such a relentless monotone throughout the entire film that it begins to weigh on you, and certainly makes you wonder why Muriel pulls out all the stops attempting to pursue him when he shows such clear disinterest in everything around him. The plot feels unusually motivated by these 'love at first sight' encounters, particularly when Macon's publicist arrives at his home and becomes immediately and unexplainably infatuated with his eccentric sister. While the script has moments of sincerity, it still revolves around a relatively predictable, "weary professional finds new meaning thanks to a quirky partner" storyline. Maybe the book has more meat on the bone to chew on. (2.5/5)

This is a movie which presents relationship issues in most honest light, no airbrushing!

Powerful and extremely well acted.

Stays high up in my list of favourite films

Isn't it a wonderful feeling to find a film that you just like. I had that feeling with this film as it wasn't afraid to tell it's story in it's own time and blended quirky eccentricities with harsh realities. Seeing life reflected through this lens made me feel happy as the sweetness of certain moments and pain of others was something that I could identify with more than the average film. Entertainment like this is so rare now as all romantic comedies feel heavily contrived as they strain for politically correct humor and characters who feel like cardboard cutouts instead of anything even vaguely resembling a real human being. While it may not be as well remembered or emotionally manipulative as Rain Man (1988) I believe this should have won Best Picture in 1988. Depressed travel writer Macon Leary, William Hurt, has always been emotionally repressed and has struggled to support his wife Sarah, Kathleen Turner, after the death of their young son. They separate at her urging and he moves back in with his tight knit siblings after breaking his leg while being pursued by an aggressive dog trainer, Muriel Pritchett, Geena Davis. He eventually begins a relationship with Pritchett and bonds with her son at the same time as his sister Rose, Amy Wright, starts dating his publisher Julian, Bill Pullman. Rose and Julian marry while Leary remains unwilling to commit to Pritchett despite her best efforts. He returns to Sarah when she offers the chance of reconciliation but finds that life is empty without Pritchett and after she follows him to Paris and he rebuffs her he is able to realize that he needs her in his life. The film is not one that needs to be projected in a theatre to be enjoyed as it is a cozy little film that is better enjoyed by a person sitting at home on a Saturday afternoon looking to find out about the lives of a group of flaky but charming individuals. Here we meet a woman who has spent her entire life catering to the needs of her brothers and who needs to feel that she is of use to continue her relationship with a person. Therefore her husband must set up her up as his secretary in order to continuing seeing her. This is just one of many delightful conclusions drawn from the film as we see a woman who is significantly flawed find happiness through compromise. No, she hasn't been forced to analyze why she follows this potentially destructive path or been lectured by our main character on how she needs to change, her husband loves her enough to put up with her faults. The humor of the film is also unique as Hurt reads out passages from the travelogues his character has written in a disaffected tone and sounds simply ridiculous. We recognize how cruelly this man treats himself as he prevents himself from really interacting with other people and fears anybody getting in. That is why Pritchett is such a bright splash of color then as she is unafraid to break down his walls and shamelessly, and rather incompetently, flirts with him to his annoyance or to his complete confusion. When this small but fearless woman chases him for his phone number or reminds him that he owes her four cents we are reminded of the fact that despite this man's son having been shot his life is still filled with quite a few humorous moments, as are many lives touched by tragedy. These occasions of comedy are what allows him to keep going as this fiercely determined woman, unafraid of being judged for her clumsy attempts at seduction, pulls him back from the edge and makes his life worth living again. Love is so hard to represent on film as it is usually so many little moments that add up to two people really falling in love but in this film we see two people who absolutely need one another to go on being happy. Smartly, Kasdan cuts from Pritchett and Leary's first time sleeping with one another to them jumping wholeheartedly into a relationship which Leary isn't quite ready for yet. There is no conversation at this point where she tells him she doesn't want to get hurt and he tells her he can only give her so much of himself. He makes a selfish decision and it is only later that he realizes how much this woman brought into his life and how great it feels to just be with her.