The Accidental Tourist (album)
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| Artist(s) | John Williams |
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| Label | Warner Bros / Wea |
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The Accidental Tourist: A Novel
Macon Leary is a travel writer who hates both travel and anything out of the ordinary. He is grounded by loneliness and an unwillingness to compromise his creature comforts when he meets Muriel, a deliciously peculiar dog-obedience trainer who up-ends Macon’s insular world–and thrusts him headlong into a remarkable engagement with life.
Lawrence Kasdan adapted Anne Tyler’s novel into this mopey comedy which, oddly enough, took the New York Film Critics Circle’s best picture award (a case of strategic voting getting out of hand). William Hurt plays a depressed travel writer struggling to come to terms with his son’s death. He buys a dog for companionship, then hires an eccentric dog trainer (Geena Davis, who won an Oscar for her role) to teach it to behave. She, in turn, teaches him to reconnect to life. But as he is beginning to admit his feelings for her to himself, he is blindsided by the…
