Co-written with Frank Galati, from Anne Tyler's novel. A film about kooks learning to function (or not).
Emotionally-distanced travel writer William Hurt (a subtle actor) tries as hard as he can to resist kooky dog trainer Geena Davis, but finally succumbs. But then his wife Kathleen Turner moves back in and he fucks it all up. This complicated by the fact they've lost their son in a random shooting, whilst Davis has her own highly vulnerable kid. The way Hurt and Turner address each other by their first names seems really unrealistic, but maybe it's there to show how incompatible these two actually are...
Hurt's family is weird, but his sister Amy Wright falls for his publisher Bill Pullman, disrupting the life of two other brothers, David Ogden Stiers and Ed Begley Jr.
The story is peppered with armchair travel tips. London and Paris feature, where in the latter Hurt meets a very polite French boy...
It's rather good. Well photographed in that sombre way of his by John Bailey and edited by his wife Carol Littleton. Though John Williams' theme is good, it is overused.
"I'm beginning to think it's not how much you love someone, but who you are when you're with them" is an interesting line.
Michael Grillo is a producer and First A.D. Bo Welch is the production designer.
Great dog (Bub).
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