I was 25 when it came out and I saw it in the theater in England. I loved it. I loved Kevin Kline and I loved the writing. Now I'm 50 and I re watched it for the first time in years. Still beautiful but now? It resounds within me somehow. How quickly time passes. The changes we go through. All the little miracles we never notice. I now live in California, married to a woman who fixed my sunglasses at LensCrafters when I just popped in there one day without a thought. A moment in my life that turned into miracle. A teenager for a child. Bills, work and life flying past. No plan, just life. This film has no pat answers, no resolution as such. Just struggles, the overwhelming power of love and the fleeting freight train that is our lives blasting along.At 25 it was a sweet movie. At 50? It's a glorious fable of existence.

I tend to favor Lawrence Kasdan movies, but "Grand Canyon" is a vexing one. In this post-"Crash" world, it seems like I can't look at a high-caliber film about human relations without some inherent baggage. Thanks for that, Haggis."Grand Canyon" smacks of Oscar bait, which is disappointing. And to be honest, I came away disliking a few of these characters (surprising, when they're played by Steve Martin and Kevin Kline; they're unlikely unsympathetic actors). Feels like every time we take a break for the social lesson, someone goes into another speech. What separates this from the more manipulative fare is that there's sincerity in those speeches; like Kasdan's desperately trying to work out that's puzzling him. There's merit to that, but the meandering pace and clunky delivery spoil the lesson.5/10

Grand Canyon revolved around six residents from different backgrounds whose lives intertwine in modern-day Los Angeles. At the center of the film is the unlikely friendship of two men from different races and classes brought together when one finds himself in jeopardy in the other's rough neighborhood.Maybe this film was heralded when it came out, but looking back on it now, it seems to me to be a poor man's Robert Altman. The intertwined lives are nice, but ultimately rather shallow. The race factor is stereotypical. Sure, they do make the point of having the lead be ignorant by hooking up the only two black people he knows. But is the script itself much better? Some have compared this film to "Crash", which sort of goes the other way and has the race factor be over the top. Why can we not just have a film about race without having to make race a factor? If that ever happens we will finally be moving in the right direction.

On a personal level take heart your troubles, even your triumphs are transitory and eventually of no import for you (however how you live your life does and will affect others)! That's the whole point of this movie and yet I failed to learn it's lesson and am continually stuck in the moment beset with regrets from the past and fears for the future and I know I'm playing a game that is fixed but more importantly temporary, yet I'm incapable of rising above the fray and see it for what it is, an accident! Because of my inability to separate my life and my reactions to life from this absurd game I make one mistake after another! Salman Rushdie said something very profound that sums up this movie beautifully (at least for me): "I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come." Salman you nailed it! By the way the movie is well worth a watch! I was very emotional whereas others I've talked with couldn't have cared less! Perspective based on life experience I suppose! There's a comment from another movie (Gladiator) that in this context seems rather cogent and it is the following: "What we do in life echos in eternity" (The law of conservation of energy?)! What an amazing quote! By the way the cast gave great performances save perhaps Steve Martin whose performance seemed, at times, stilted or perhaps more correctly not genuine! Therefore I couldn't rate this wonderful film 10 stars.