Grand Canyon Summary
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Genres: Drama
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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, Rovi
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