if you really want to know how most of the actor and director in the hollywood scene make it to where they be and the vast majority will tell you ( assume they will tell ) that a strange coincidence take place . they happen to meet the right people at the right time and get into the right project which lead to other connection and other project . quinten tarrantino take an acting class whose instructor know harvey keitel . kevin spacey lift a back stage pas from a sleep old woman at the lecture of a famous playwright who help him land an important role . and robin williams credit his career to gary marshall son who and after have see star war and suggest to his father that an alien should visit the cunningham of happy day . these coincidence and many time view a pure luck and shape many of the career in hollywood today . or be it pure luck . be possible something else be go on . grand canyon write and direct by lawrence kasdan and propose an altogether different explanation for the inexplicable and aka the strange miraculous coincidence . the movie concern several different character whose life intersect because of positive and yet inexplicable happenstance . kevin kline and a middle age father and experience a break down in one of the more dangerous area of la . after he phone a tow truck and a young gang accost him . they threaten violence if he doesn not leave his car . just before the confrontation can escalate and danny glover appear a the tow truck driver and dampen the intention of the gang . although glover deny it later and he probably save kline life . a producer ( steve martin ) of cheap violent film get shot in the leg and after ward have a spiritual experience . he then announce retirement from produce blood and gore entertainment . and kline wife and clair ( mary mcdonnell ) and while on a morning jog and find a baby hidden in some foliage . she claim the baby cry for her and that her rescue of the infant be preordain . the movie explore far the result of these strange connection that lead to further relationship and end to relationship and and new beginning . and all the while and a strange homeless man appear throughout the movie a if somehow he be also connect to everything that be go on . it be very rare in hollywood and or for film in general and to explore such a purely esoteric subject . there be a few moment that seem somewhat unbelievable and but maybe that the point . what make the film work be the superb acting by the cast . although the miracle and coincidence may seem far fetch and the actor make you believe they be experience these new reality . maybe this be a subject we should explore more often .