Himechi | 11 points | Nov 07 2017 06:15:33

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[Grand Canyon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canyon_(1991_film)) is a 1991 film by writer-director Lawrence Kasdan whom you might know for The Big Chill, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Wyatt Earp and a few Star Wars movies. Or maybe from 2012's shockingly inept Darling Companion. Some days the dragon wins...

The ensemble cast includes Kevin Kline, Danny Glover, Alfre Woodard, Steve Martin, Mary-Louise Parker more than a decade before Weeds and Mary McDonnell fresh from Dances With Wolves. The score is by James Newton Howard.

Roger Ebert wrote,

Honesty is all through “Grand Canyon,” which is about several characters who would never, in the ordinary course of events, meet one another. Kline plays a wealthy accountant attached to the entertainment industry; Glover is a divorced, hardworking tow-truck driver. A few days after the street incident, Kline seeks out Glover for a cup of coffee because, he says, he wants to thank the man who saved his life. He doesn’t want it to be just a chance meeting in the night.
This impulse - to break down the barriers that society erects between people - is what “Grand Canyon” is about. It takes place in a Los Angeles that is painted as ominous and threatening, an alienating landscape where rich people pile up bulwarks of money and distance to protect them from the dangers of poverty and despair. But the Kline character believes that he has been granted a new life, and he wants to lead it a little differently this time. Like the characters in two other Kasdan movies, “The Big Chill” and “The Accidental Tourist,” he finds that the nearness of death can be an inspiration to live more thoughtfully.

Ebert makes it sound much darker than it is.

-the stats-
Overall bitrate is 5498kb/s
Audio is 5.1 AC-3 @ 640kb/s
English subtitles
This is a recode of the HD4U release.

The included soundtrack album is a 320kb/s rip of the 2013 La-La-Land Records re-release.

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