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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, All Movie Guide

Kevin Kline - Mack
Danny Glover - Simon
Steve Martin - Davis
Mary McDonnell - Claire
Mary-Louise Parker - Dee
Alfre Woodard - Jane

1991	Best Original Screenplay (nominee)	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie	Lawrence Kasdan
1991	Best Original Screenplay (nominee)	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie	Meg Kasdan

Grand Canyon may not be as well known or well loved as writer/director Lawrence Kasdan's The Big Chill, but it certainly deserves a better treatment on DVD than it has received from 20th Century Fox. The 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer and heightened digital sound give the film a better presentation than it ever had on video, but it has been drastically slighted in terms of supplements. Aside from the great transfer, there's nothing else on the disc except for a lame featurette and a theatrical trailer. Where Columbia/TriStar produced in-depth, hour-long featurettes by respected documentarian Laurent Bouzereau for The Big Chill and Silverado, Foxhas chosen to recycle an old featurette made to promote the film at the time of its theatrical release. With a run time of only a few minutes, the featurette is basically worthless. Kasdan, his wife and collaborator Meg Kasdan, and members of the cast talk the movie up, but how necessary is it to sell a film that is ten years old? With no deleted scenes or documentary, let alone a commentary, Grand Canyon is truly slighted on DVD. ~ Oliver Thornton, All Movie Guide

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