Grand Canyon (1991 film)

Grand Canyon is a 1991 American drama film directed and produced by Lawrence Kasdan, and written by Kasdan with his wife Meg. Featuring an ensemble cast, the film is about random events affecting a selection of diverse characters, the film explores the race and classimposed chasms which separate members of the same community. Grand Canyon was advertised as The Big Chill for the 90s, in reference to an earlier Kasdan film.

In the meantime, Macks wife Claire Mary McDonnell and his best friend Davis Steve Martin, a producer of violent action films, are experiencing lifechanging events. Claire encounters an abandoned baby while jogging and becomes determined to adopt her. Davis suddenly becomes interested in philosophy rather than boxoffice profits after being shot in the leg by a man trying to steal his watch, vowing to devote the remainder of his career to eliminating violence from the cinema.The film chronicles how these charactersas well as various acquaintances, coworkers and relativesare affected by their interactions in the light of lifechanging events. In the end, they visit the Grand Canyon on a shared vacation trip, united in a place that is philosophically and actually bigger than all their little separate lives. ........

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