The Accidental Tourist | film by Kasdan [1988] | Britannica (original) (raw)

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  • In Anne Tyler
    It was made into a film in 1988. That year Tyler also published Breathing Lessons, which explores a couple’s relationship as they drive to a funeral; it won a Pulitzer Prize in 1989. Her later books included Saint Maybe (1991); Ladder of Years (1995); A Patchwork Planet (1998);
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• Oscar to Davis for best supporting actress, 1988

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    In Geena Davis
    …played by William Hurt in The Accidental Tourist, based on a novel by Anne Tyler. Davis’s performance in the latter earned her an Academy Award for best supporting actress. She later played opposite Bill Murray in the heist comedy Quick Change (1990). Davis was perhaps most widely known for her…
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• Hurt
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    In William Hurt
    Other notable films included The Accidental Tourist (1988), Smoke (1995), Chantal Akerman’s A Couch in New York (1996), One True Thing (1998), Syriana (2005), Into the Wild (2007), Robin Hood (2010), Winter’s Tale (2014), Days and Nights
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    In Kathleen Turner
    In 1988 Turner appeared in The Accidental Tourist, an adaptation of Anne Tyler’s novel that also featured Hurt, and she later reunited with Douglas in the divorce comedy The War of the Roses (1989). Her subsequent films included V.I. Warshawski (1991), in which she played a private investigator; the comedy…
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