Synopsis
After the death of his son, travel writer Macon Leary seems to be sleep walking through life. Macon's wife is having similar problems. They separate, and Macon meets a strange, outgoing woman who brings him 'back down to earth', but his wife soon thinks their marriage is still worth another try.
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Cast
- William HurtMacon Leary
- Kathleen TurnerSarah Leary
- Geena DavisMuriel Pritchett
- Amy WrightRose Leary
- David Ogden StiersPorter Leary
- Ed Begley Jr.Charles Leary
- Bill PullmanJulian Hedge
- Robert Hy GormanAlexander
- Bradley MottLucas Loomis
- Seth GrangerEthan
Recommandations
- 100
Chicago Sun-Times
I've never seen a movie so sad in which there was so much genuine laughter. The Accidental Tourist is one of the best films of the year. - 100
Los Angeles Times
Irresistibly funny… Just about the best holiday gift imaginable. [23 Dec 1988, Calendar, p.6-1] - 100
USA Today
The chief delight is Kasdan. “Body Heat” was appropriately slick, but “The Big Chill” and “Silverado” too much so. Tourist is edgier - also the work of a genuine craftsman. Frankly, I didn't think Kasdan had it in him. [23 Dec 1988, Life, p.1D] - 80
Variety
Slow, sonorous and largely satisfying. - 75
Chicago Tribune
The film's frequent longeurs, compulsive over-explicitness and unshakably morose hero seem like so many insistently ''literary'' qualities, ostentatiously laid over a cute, cartoonish vision that suggests not so much Anne Tyler as the affectionate quirkiness of ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show.'' [6 Jan 1989, Friday, p.A] - 50
Chicago Reader
Hurt's character is so inert and unemotional that some spectators may find it difficult to stay interested in him. - 40
The New York Times
The Accidental Tourist often relies on Miss Tyler's methods without tempering them, and gives a tone of crashing obviousness to material that need not have seemed that way. [23 Dec 1988, p.C12] - 38
Christian Science Monitor
The message of the film is that life isn't neat and predictable like a well-arranged business trip; yet everything in the picture is so calculated that there's no life to it. [23 Dec 1988, A& L, p.19]
