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Release Date: 17 December, 2002 Retail Price: $9.98 OUR Price: $8.99 You SAVE: $0.99! Cast: Complete Cast (18 total) |
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One of the most horrible movies of all time
This film attempts to parallel the exquisite (yet sadly dated) "Big Chill", also by Lawrence Kasdan, but instead makes a laughingstock of important issues that have been treated with more care. Borrowing the masturbatory excesses of the worst acting performances in any movie I have ever seen (Steve Martin, with fake beard, is most suspect) and needlessly forced social commentary, "Grand Canyon" tries so hard to "say something important" that it almost rises to the point of unintentional hilarity. The social commentary is so force-fed and heavy, and the actors don't even know what do to otherwise but stand back and let the audience get pummelled to death: we are all racist, materialistic, unloving scum, and don't you ever forget it. "Boys In the Hood" is nearly kind and gentle by comparison.
This ridiculously bad film has somehow become a prototype of sorts for interlocking-plot-social-commentary flicks like "Crash" and "Traffic". But this dog is about as far away from those fine films as one can get. I don't know, maybe it's Danny Glover, who should have never been in a movie ever, or Kevin Kline, who is woefully miscast, or the overrated Mary Louise Parker, or the Martin Beard Fiasco, but the whole thing just reeks. BAD. I almost guarantee that at least one time during this film, if not several times, you will say out loud, "OH GIVE ME A BREAK!" Dated the day it hit the screen, "Grand Canyon" remains one of the most embarassing and sad displays of Hallmark Card filmmaking ever, about as sympathetic and open-minded as any shock-jock radio political commentator, and as gentle in getting its trite point across as a steamroller. This is evidently what happens when out-of-touch movie celebs get together with self-inflated, egotistical directors and try to "say something relevant about America".
And the fact that it is set in Los Angeles doesn't help.
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