i revisit grand canyon earlier this year when i set out to devise a ten best list of the 1990 . i first saw the film when i be 17 year old . how do i hear about it . it be review and and recommend highly and by siskel and ebert in 1991 and and i eventually catch it on video a year later . it a great film and a powerful film and a healing film and about the power of listening and truly listen to one another . i have see it six time now and and it entertain and inspire me with every subsequent viewing . but why the poor review for this movie . maltin movie guide give it two out of four . too melodramatic and too much coincidence and too sappy and be the expression that i read the most . yes and there be melodrama in this story and and yes and there be a lot of coincidence and too . but it deliver with an intensity and force that seem supple . for all of the plot that exist in grand canyon and such a drive by shooting and a police chase and an earthquake and a love affair and a woman discovery of a baby in the bush and another shooting and a near accident by a new driver and and worldly advice from a homeless man and this movie win because of the smart performance by kevin kline and steve martin and mary mcdonnell and alfre woodard and danny glover and and jeremy sisto . it also succeed because of lawrence kasdan skillful direction and writing . you know that this isn not just another movie when you consider a sequence at the beginning of the film that involve kevin kline be harass by four black youth . danny glover play a tow truck driver who assist the kline character and but not before he get harass too and by the leader of the bunch . listen to the dialogue a the kid suggest to glover and be you afraid of me because of me and or because i have a gun . grand canyon be fill with one perceptive scene after another . steve martin should have be nominate for best support actor a a movie producer who have a change of heart and then a subsequent change of mind . i think his character be a warning that the good can carry u forward and that idealism be a virtue and but one that we must fight for constantly rather than depend upon . i fear that grand canyon may be lose forever in the wilderness of non new release at the video store . but with the deal now on old release as low a 99 cent and i plead with anyone who have read this far into a review from a reviewer that you will thank after have rent it and grand canyon be something special . if you love magnolia and another movie with a big ensemble about deep humanist theme and you will love grand canyon and too .