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General Minor 
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TITLE |
Accidental Tourist, The (1988) |
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DISABILITY |
General
Allergies Mental |
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NOTES |
A wonderful
film with fine performances from Hurt and Davis. |
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Hurt a
travel writer with a difference ( he writes for tourists |
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who want to
avoid other tourists), loses his son and retreats |
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into a
shell. His wife, Turner, leaves him. But when off |
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abroad he
takes his dog to kennels where he meets the dippy |
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Davis. She
targets him as a partner and father for her son. |
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Hurt doesn't
respond initially but eventually they're living |
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together
though Hurt is still withdrawn. But with the |
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extroverted
good sense of Davis and an improvement in his |
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relations
with his eccentric family he discovers renewed |
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Only a
peripheral claim to inclusion in this list, mainly the |
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allergies of
Davis' son (an illness rather than a disability but |
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affecting
his growth). Also the mental state of Hurt's family, |
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eccentricity
being a euphemism for their social incapacities. |
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We might
also see Hurt as a metaphor for our own alienation |
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(temporary,
permanent, periodic ) resulting from disability. |
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But I may be
just a sucker for a good romance. |
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From Anne
Tyler's novel of same name |
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Notes
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