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Macon Leary (Hurt) is a Baltimore writer of travel guides for reluctant business travelers. His marriage to his wife Sarah (Turner) is disintegrating in the aftermath of the murder of their twelve-year-old son. Sarah eventually leaves Macon, moving out of their house and into an apartment. After he falls down the basement stairs and breaks his leg, Macon returns to his childhood home to stay with his eccentric siblings.
Macon is pursued by Muriel Pritchett (Davis), an animal hospital employee and dog trainer with a sickly son. Macon eventually hires Muriel to put his dog through much-needed obedience training. Although Muriel at first seems brash and unsophisticated, Macon finds himself slowly opening up to her and trusting her, and he spends most nights at her house, which makes things complicated when Sarah becomes aware of the situation, and she decides they should move back together.
Macon is pursued by Muriel Pritchett (Davis), an animal hospital employee and dog trainer with a sickly son. Macon eventually hires Muriel to put his dog through much-needed obedience training. Although Muriel at first seems brash and unsophisticated, Macon finds himself slowly opening up to her and trusting her, and he spends most nights at her house, which makes things complicated when Sarah becomes aware of the situation, and she decides they should move back together.
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Macon Leary (Hurt) is a Baltimore writer of travel guides for reluctant business travelers. His marriage to with his wife Sarah (Turner) is disintegrating in the aftermath of the murder of their twelve-year-old son. Sarah eventually leaves Macon, moving out of their house and into an apartment. After he falls down the basement stairs and breaks his leg, Macon returns to his childhood home to stay with his eccentric siblings.
Macon is pursued by Muriel Pritchett (Davis), an animal hospital employee and dog trainer with a sickly son. Macon eventually hires Muriel to put his dog through much-needed obedience training. Although Muriel at first seems brash and unsophisticated, Macon finds himself slowly opening up to her and trusting her, and he spends most nights at her house, which makes things complicated when Sarah becomes aware of thesituation, situation and she decides they should move back together.
Macon is pursued by Muriel Pritchett (Davis), an animal hospital employee and dog trainer with a sickly son. Macon eventually hires Muriel to put his dog through much-needed obedience training. Although Muriel at first seems brash and unsophisticated, Macon finds himself slowly opening up to her and trusting her, and he spends most nights at her house, which makes things complicated when Sarah becomes aware of the
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''The Accidental Tourist'' is a 1988 American drama film starring Creator/WilliamHurt, Creator/KathleenTurner, and Creator/GeenaDavis. It was directed by Creator/LawrenceKasdan and scored by Music/JohnWilliams. The film's screenplay was adapted by Kasdan and Frank Galati from the 1985 novel of the same name by Anne Tyler.
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''The Accidental Tourist'' is a 1988 American drama film starring Creator/WilliamHurt, Creator/KathleenTurner, and Creator/GeenaDavis. It was directed by Creator/LawrenceKasdan and scored by Music/JohnWilliams. The film's screenplay was adapted [[TheFilmOfTheBook adapted]] by Kasdan and Frank Galati from the 1985 novel of the same name by Anne Tyler.
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* SuperOCD: Macon and his family. Macon's own was kept in check by his wife and Ethan. For example, when going to a movie with Ethan, Macon got technical with where they should sit -- sitting in the middle had its benefits, but so did sitting in the aisle. Ethan's lack of concern causes Macon to snark fine, they'll sit wherever. Macon long after Ethan's death realized the value of having that kind of freedom.
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* ShesGotLegs: Like ''Film/ThelmaAndLouise'' afterwards, the film shows why Geena Davis (who is six feet tall and most of it leg) was made for this trope.
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* GriefInducedSplit: After Macon and Sarah's twelve-year-old son was murdered, Macon seems to have lost the ability to care, making Sarah leave him. However, when she learns he is dating Muriel--and is getting better--she wants to reconcile.
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* AdaptedOut: Macon's nephews and neices, Muriel's parents and sister.
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* AdaptedOut: Macon's nephews and neices, nieces, Muriel's parents and sister.
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* AdultFear: You send your son to sleepaway camp -- and he never returns, because he sneaked off the campgrounds to go to a fast food joint and became a victim in a robbery where the criminal decided to LeaveNoWitnesses.
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* NoAntagonist: Especially so in the film version, which cuts out the closest thing to an antagonistic figure, Muriel's captious mother. The story is, like many of Anne Tyler's works, character-driven.
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* DidYouThinkICantFeel: Sarah complains to Macon that he showed absolutely no emotions about Ethan's death, acting like nothing had happened, and even tried to sell off Ethan's beloved belongings like his bike. Macon retorts of ''course'' he's broken up about it, but Sarah is right to some degree. Macon's become so unemotional even Macon's wondering if he has lost the ability to care again. The only hint he shows that he has some emotion left is he refuses to get rid of Edward.
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* DidYouThinkICantFeel: DidYouThinkICantFeel:
** Sarah complains to Macon that he showed absolutely no emotions about Ethan's death, acting like nothing had happened, and even tried to sell off Ethan's beloved belongings like his bike. Macon retorts of ''course'' he's broken up about it, but Sarah is right to some degree. Macon's become so unemotional even Macon's wondering if he has lost the ability to care again. The only hint he shows that he has some emotion left is he refuses to get rid of Edward.
** Even before Ethan's death, Macon wasn't approachable. He later learns from his niece that Ethan mocked his father to his cousins in such a way as to make him seem less like a robot and more like a quirky dad.
** Sarah complains to Macon that he showed absolutely no emotions about Ethan's death, acting like nothing had happened, and even tried to sell off Ethan's beloved belongings like his bike. Macon retorts of ''course'' he's broken up about it, but Sarah is right to some degree. Macon's become so unemotional even Macon's wondering if he has lost the ability to care again. The only hint he shows that he has some emotion left is he refuses to get rid of Edward.
** Even before Ethan's death, Macon wasn't approachable. He later learns from his niece that Ethan mocked his father to his cousins in such a way as to make him seem less like a robot and more like a quirky dad.
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* SuperOCD: Macon and his family. Macon's own was kept in check by his wife and Ethan. For example, when going to a movie with Ethan, Macon got technical with where they should sit -- sitting in the middle had its benefits, but so did sitting in the aisle. Ethan's lack of concern causes Macon to snark fine, they'll sit wherever. Macon long after Ethan's death realized the value of having that kind of freedom.
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* UnreliableNarrator: In the first few chapters of the book, Macon's started setting up contraptions and time-saving habits now that he's got the house to himself, such as using Ethan's skateboard as a laundry delivery system and sewing up blankets to create "bod pod" that is easier to wash. It seems natural and inventive to Macon, but later in the book, people are astonished at how off the deep end Macon went, and the reader realizes, yes, Macon was going ''crazy''.
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* DidYouThinkICantFeel: Sarah complains to Macon that he showed absolutely no emotions about Ethan's death, acting like nothing had happened, and even tried to sell off Ethan's beloved belongings like his bike. Macon retorts of ''course'' he's broken up about it, but Sarah is right to some degree. Macon's become so unemotional even Macon's wondering if he has lost the ability to care again. The only hint he shows that he has some emotion left is he refuses to get rid of Edward.
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* IdentifyingTheBody: Grieving, emotionally shocked Macon has to identify his son Ethan's body. Almost unemotionally, Macon says, "Yes. That is my son." In the original book, Sarah asks him what it was like, and Macon says that the body was Ethan, but the thing that made Ethan ''Ethan'' was gone.
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* MayDecemberRomance: Though it's more April-August in the book and even closer in the film. Macon isn't the first older man Muriel's had a serious relationship with.
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* RummageSaleReject: Muriel's standard look, and it's justified in the book because she shops in thrift stores to survive.
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* FallenOnHardTimesJob: In the book, Muriel has several jobs, like running errands and doing laundry for others, because she's barely getting by, and lives in the poor part of Baltimore.
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* FallenOnHardTimesJob: In the book, Muriel has several jobs, like running errands and doing laundry for others, because she's barely getting by, and lives in the poor part of Baltimore. Even her dog training job is part-time.
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