Grand Canyon

Theatrical Release Date: 1991 12 25 (USA)

UPC: 024543012481

Studio: 20th Century Fox

MPAA Rating: R   Contains:[Violence, Adult Situations, Adult Language]

Summary: 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, Rovi

Category: Drama

Awards: Best Original Screenplay – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Original Screenplay – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Golden Bear – Berlin International Film Festival Best Picture – National Board of Review

Features: Anamorphic widescreen [aspect ratio 2.35:1]
Languages: English 4.0 Surround, English Dolby Surround, French Dolby Surround
Subtitles: English, Spanish
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Grand Canyon

Format: DVD

Release Date: 03/13/2001

Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Cinemascope

Audio: DD4.0 Dolby Digital 4.0, DDS Dolby Digital Surround

Runtime: 137 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,French

Subtitles: English,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Scene Selections
0. Scene Selections
0. Menu Group #1 with 32 chapter(s) covering 02:14:25
1. Main Titles. [:20]
2. Struggling for Control. [3:38]
3. Wrong Side of Town. [1:10]
4. Rescued. [2:31]
5. Waiting Up. [4:28]
6. Mack & Simon. [:16]
7. Davis. [5:13]
8. Off to Camp. [1:41]
9. A Bullet for a Rolex. [2:19]
10. The Baby in the Bushes. [3:25]
11. Simon's Daughter. [1:13]
12. The Love Thing. [:03]
13. Claire's Suprise. [2:28]
14. Living in a War Zone. [1:18]
15. City of Angels. [3:15]
16. A World Wihout Sense. [1:30]
17. Dreams. [2:09]
18. Leaving the Hospital. [1:59]
19. Breakfast with Simon. [2:05]
20. Finished with Violence. [2:01]
21. The Matchmaker. [4:46]
22. Roberto's Return. [:26]
23. Fixed Up. [5:45]
24. Connections. [4:17]
25. Dee's Bad Night. [1:14]
26. Canoga Park. [5:00]
27. Quitting. [5:37]
28. The Driving Lesson. [1:22]
29. So Close Together. [6:39]
30. Davis's Responsibility. [:38]
31. Simon's Idea. [4:09]
32. End Titles [2:44]

Mike DiBella

Lawrence Kasdan's lofty epic about the human condition is hit-or-miss, but when it hits it makes for tantalizing cinema. The film depicts characters on a treacherous search for enlightenment in the City of Angels. Perhaps Kasdan's film is more fantasy than anything else, an attempt to envision a world without violence or class distinction. Grand Canyon evokes other multi-character "meaning of it all" epics such as Nashville (1975) and Magnolia (1999), and though it investigates fate and randomness in a new light, these concepts have been examined more intricately in other directors' efforts. Kasdan does some inventive things cinematically, however, including some innovative, vivid dream sequences. The central moral premise of the film is also fairly revolutionary, portraying people going against the grain to fight the system -- even if it amounts to putting a band-aid on a shotgun wound. ~ Mike DiBella, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Jeanne Bates  Actor 
Destinee de Walt  Actor 
Henry Kingi  Actor 
Loren Mead  Actor 
Marley Shelton  Actor 
Willie C. Carpenter  Actor 
Jim Morange  Actor 
Mary Ellen Trainor  Actor 
Jennifer Shull  Actor 
Jacqueline Alexandra  Actor 
Ben Chaney  Actor 
Brett Jones  Actor 
Branscombe Richmond  Actor 
Basil Wallace  Actor 
K. Todd Freeman  Actor 
Kristen Amber  Actor 
Steve Davis  Actor 
Walt Jordan  Actor 
Lynn Salvatori  Actor 
Carole Ita White  Actor 
John Ashby  Actor 
Cora Lee Day  Actor 
Jack Kehler  Actor 
Candace Mead  Actor 
Deon Sams  Actor 
Christopher M. Brown  Actor 
Sam H. Ginsburg  Actor 
Randle Mell  Actor 
Paul Short  Actor 
Todd Allen  Actor 
Gregg G. Dandridge  Actor 
Sharon Lee Jones  Actor 
Ben McCreary  Actor 
Hugh Ross  Actor 
Anne Ward  Actor 
Gary Cervantes  Actor 
Clifton Gonzalez Gonzalez  Actor 
Georgina Lindsey  Actor 
Sarah Trigger  Actor 
Shaun Baker  Actor 
Bill Conti  Composer (Music Score) 
Michael Grillo  Producer 
James Newton Howard  Composer (Music Score) 
Lawrence Kasdan  Director 
Lawrence Kasdan  Producer 
Lawrence Kasdan  Screenwriter 
Meg Kasdan  Screenwriter 
Charles Okun  Producer 
Kevin Kline  Actor 
Danny Glover  Actor 
Steve Martin  Actor 
Mary McDonnell  Actor 
Mary-Louise Parker  Actor 
Alfre Woodard  Actor 
Jeremy Sisto  Actor 
Tina Lifford  Actor 
Patrick Malone  Actor 

Country: USA