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The Accidental Tourist is a 1988 romantic drama film directed by Lawrence Kasdan, based on Anne Tyler's novel. It stars William Hurt, Kathleen Turner and Geena Davis as a grieving couple and a dog trainer.
The Accidental Tourist: Directed by Lawrence Kasdan. With William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Geena Davis, Amy Wright. An emotionally distant writer of travel guides must carry on with his life after his son is killed and his marriage crumbles.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Lawrence Kasdan
- 1989-01-06
PS3570.Y45 A64 1985. The Accidental Tourist is a 1985 novel by Anne Tyler that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 1985 and the Ambassador Book Award for Fiction in 1986. The novel was adapted into a 1988 award-winning film starring William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, and Geena Davis ...
- Anne Tyler
- 1985
second assistant director: Paris Eric Bartonio ... first assistant director: Paris Carey Dietrich ... second second assistant director Stephen P. Dunn ... second assistant director (as Stephen Dunn) Paul Frift ... second assistant director: London Michael Grillo ... first assistant director Simon Hinkly ...
The screenplay for “The Accidental Tourist,” by Kasdan and Frank Galati, is able to reproduce a lot of the tone and dialogue of the Anne Tyler novel without ever simply being a movie version of a book. The textures are too specific and the humor is too quirky and well-timed to be borrowed. The filmmakers have reinvented the same story in ...
The Accidental Tourist. After the murder of their young son, the marriage between Macon (William Hurt) and his wife Sarah (Kathleen Turner) disintegrates, and she moves out. After a freak accident ...
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- Drama
- PG
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The Accidental Tourist is a 1988 American drama film starring William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, and Geena Davis. It was directed by Lawrence Kasdan and scored by John Williams. The film's screenplay was adapted by Kasdan and Frank Galati from the novel of the same name by Anne Tyler.
