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...Grand Canyon at 1, 4:15, 7:10 and 9:50p.m...
Dances with Wolves (running time: three hours, 10 minutes) won seven Oscars, so naturally everyone started making longer movies: JFK (three hours, eight minutes), Bugsy (2:15), Grand Canyon (2:15) and Hook (2:11). Next: Malcolm X (3+). Go for the giant popcorn and jumbo soft drinks...
...Grand Canyon at 1, 4:15, 7:10 and 9:50p.m...
...GRAND CANYON. The season's Nice Try Award goes to Lawrence Kasdan. As director and co-writer of this rambling comedy-drama, he tackles big issues (race relations, infidelity, mid-life malaise, crime) with some soaring ingenuity and the help of an attractive cast (Kevin Kline, Danny Glover, Mary-Louise Parker). Grand Canyon goes all weird and wussy at the end, but for the first hour or so it addresses real issues and feelings -- the preoccupations of most people who work outside Hollywood...
...Grand Canyon's structure is rewardingly complex, intertwining disparate lives that represent a fair cross section of big-city life. The fulcrum character, discovered in a slightly off-center condition, which will get worse before it gets better, is a mildly depressed, mildly humorous man named Mack (Kevin Kline). The process that will force him to higher consciousness begins when his car breaks down in a bad neighborhood and his life is threatened by a menacing gang, then saved by Simon (Danny Glover), a lonely tow-truck operator. The episode is Mack's first lesson in just how tenuous...