Grand Canyon

Documentary

Tim Cooper	Seneca Howland
Scotty Davis	O.G. Howland
Brad Dimock	Walter Powell
Dave Kashinski	Jack Sumner
Lars Niemi	George Bradley
Scott Perry	Andy Hall
Stuart Reeder	Bill Dunn
Stanley Swarts	Major Powell
Harlan Taney	Billy Hawkins
Robin Ward	Narrator
Danny Glover
Kevin Kline
Steve Martin
Mary McDonnell
Mary-Louise Parker
Alfre Woodard
Jeremy Sisto
Tina Lifford
Patrick Malone
Randle Mell

Director	Christopher Rowley; Lawrence Kasdan
Producer	Jane Armstrong; Christopher Rowley; Michael Grillo; Lawrence Kasdan; Charles Okun
Writer	Allen J. Abel; Gary Lang; Lawrence Kasdan; Meg Kasdan

This murky rumination on keeping faith in our troubled times was an early sign that writer-director Lawrence Kasdan (Silverado) was losing his once-powerful grasp on the art of storytelling. Set in modern Los Angeles--with all its random violence, venality, ubiquitous police presence, earthquakes, and dreams--the film concerns an unusual intersection of lives and chance occurrences that alter everyone's perspective on destiny. Kasdan, very understandably, is attempting to create an experience for viewers as intuitive as the undefined forces propelling his characters. But from the outside looking in, there isn't enough internal logic in the story to help us connect the dots. Steve Martin has an interesting part as a garish film producer who undergoes a change in priorities after being assaulted on the street. --Tom Keogh