Grand Tour: Disaster in Time
Starring:Jeff Daniels, Ariana Richards, Emilia Crow, Jim Haynie, Marilyn Lightstone, George Murdock, David Wells, Nicholas Guest, Robert Colbert, Time Winters, Anna Neill, Willie Rack, Mimi Craven, Jacquie McClure, Steven Gilborn, Vernon Barkhurst, J.R. Knotts, Jeffrey Conklin, Mary Marsh (II), Francis Coady
Director: David Twohy
Studio: Platinum Disc
Product Type: DVD
Average customer rating:
- underrated and almost forgotten
- Grand Tour - Disaster in Time
- Not bad for a low budget movie
- Very good on a cheap budget
- Pretty good little time travel movie
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Grand Tour - Disaster in Time
Starring: Jeff Daniels , Ariana Richards , Emilia Crow , Jim Haynie , and Marilyn Lightstone
Director: David Twohy
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ASIN: B00006LPC9
Release Date: 2002-11-19 |
Customer Reviews:
underrated and almost forgotten.......2007-05-24
This is a fine Sci Fi movie and the roles are well casted. And Hey! I know the man who was one of the set carpenters, so I have a dfferent feel for it I suppose!
Grand Tour - Disaster in Time.......2006-08-17
Grand Tour is a movie that should become a classic in time, just like the movie: The Day the Earth Stood Still. Grand Tour weaves through some interesting scenes. As a Science Fiction Genre, it leads one to believe that the Time portal is a possibility. The story line is not one of those that leaves no doubt it is a fiction. The movie keeps you engrossed throughout the entire story.
Not bad for a low budget movie.......2006-08-04
For a low budget movie, it wasn't bad...well except the ending. It was kind of like a long Twilight Zone episode. Time travelers from the "perfect" future go on adventures for excitement. Their time is given a description that sounds like Heaven by one traveler. But their paradise must be boring if they are wanting vicariously to experience tragedies. Ben Wilson (Jeff Daniels) wants to save his daughter from dying in it and so he sets into action to prevent her death and others as well.
It's not a bad flick so if it ever happens to be on TV or can get a hold of a copy cheap, watch it. I really hated the ending just because it didn't make sense to me.
One part that was interesting was when the time travelers left they were going to another disaster. New Orleans in 1999. Well, this was made in 1992 so of course the writers didn't know that a hurricane was going to hit it 6 years later.
Very good on a cheap budget.......2006-07-02
This is an excellent and fun movie. However, as my daugher pointed out, the concept was held short of desiring a repeat viewing by insufficient scene development, poor special effects, and a sometimes unbelievable scripting. For the latter, for example, there is completely insufficient disbelief voiced by the characters when they discover time travel is involved. Even with all of these minor short-comings the key actors permit one to suspend growing disbelief to thoroughly enjoy this story. Recommended to time travel and science fiction fans. Some bad language and an implied sexual scene, so parents of younger children should exercise some judgement.
Pretty good little time travel movie.......2006-04-09
Grand Tour - Disaster in Time is a decent movie with above average acting and writing. Jeff Daniels is the "name" actor in the cast, and does a respectable job of carrying the story and fleshing out his character. He plays Ben Wilson, a widower with terrible guilt feelings about his wife's accidental death and his less than noble reaction to the accident (he fled the scene).
Our story picks up on his life with his daughter Hillary as they struggle to finish their bed and breakfast inn. They are confronted with a tour bus full of people (time travelers from the future on a Grand Tour of history's great disasters, thus the title of the film) that want to rent his unfinished inn and won't take no for an answer. Turns out his inn is perfectly positioned for the group to witness a devastating meteor strike on the small town where Ben and his daughter live. After the meteor strike, Ben catches on to the group, and he follows them to an abandoned plant where they are preparing to witness a second ancillary disaster in the emergency shelter for the survivors that is set up at a school. When Ben sees what they are training their tourist interest upon, he realizes that daughter Hillary is volunteering in the school, and races to rescue her, arriving just seconds too late as the school explodes from a gas leak, killing her and everyone else.
In the concluding act of the movie, Ben acquires one of the traveler's time passports, allowing him to go back in time and prevent most of the deaths in the town from the meteor strike and prevent the gas explosion at the school, saving his daughter's life.
One of the nicer plot twists in this movie is the fact that the future time travelers found a bit more than they bargained for when they encountered this particular "bygoner" named Ben Wilson, who wasn't content to let them get away with their detached voyeurism but challenged them to regain their humanity and feel for the victims that they encountered on their tour. Like all good science fiction, this story touched upon the larger themes of what it means to go through this life and to truly be human in spite of the shortcomings of those around us.
All told, this is a very satisfying story. The effects are a little cheesy, and the supporting cast is weak, but the strength of the screenplay and the acting of Jeff Daniels help to make this a worthwhile movie. I recommend it, and give it 4 stars!
Average customer rating:
- underrated and almost forgotten
- Grand Tour - Disaster in Time
- Not bad for a low budget movie
- Very good on a cheap budget
- Pretty good little time travel movie
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Grand Tour: Disaster in Time
Starring: Jeff Daniels , Ariana Richards , Emilia Crow , Jim Haynie , and Marilyn Lightstone
Director: David Twohy
Manufacturer: Platinum Disc
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ASIN: B00008G8N8
Release Date: 1999-06-29 |
Customer Reviews:
underrated and almost forgotten.......2007-05-24
This is a fine Sci Fi movie and the roles are well casted. And Hey! I know the man who was one of the set carpenters, so I have a dfferent feel for it I suppose!
Grand Tour - Disaster in Time.......2006-08-17
Grand Tour is a movie that should become a classic in time, just like the movie: The Day the Earth Stood Still. Grand Tour weaves through some interesting scenes. As a Science Fiction Genre, it leads one to believe that the Time portal is a possibility. The story line is not one of those that leaves no doubt it is a fiction. The movie keeps you engrossed throughout the entire story.
Not bad for a low budget movie.......2006-08-04
For a low budget movie, it wasn't bad...well except the ending. It was kind of like a long Twilight Zone episode. Time travelers from the "perfect" future go on adventures for excitement. Their time is given a description that sounds like Heaven by one traveler. But their paradise must be boring if they are wanting vicariously to experience tragedies. Ben Wilson (Jeff Daniels) wants to save his daughter from dying in it and so he sets into action to prevent her death and others as well.
It's not a bad flick so if it ever happens to be on TV or can get a hold of a copy cheap, watch it. I really hated the ending just because it didn't make sense to me.
One part that was interesting was when the time travelers left they were going to another disaster. New Orleans in 1999. Well, this was made in 1992 so of course the writers didn't know that a hurricane was going to hit it 6 years later.
Very good on a cheap budget.......2006-07-02
This is an excellent and fun movie. However, as my daugher pointed out, the concept was held short of desiring a repeat viewing by insufficient scene development, poor special effects, and a sometimes unbelievable scripting. For the latter, for example, there is completely insufficient disbelief voiced by the characters when they discover time travel is involved. Even with all of these minor short-comings the key actors permit one to suspend growing disbelief to thoroughly enjoy this story. Recommended to time travel and science fiction fans. Some bad language and an implied sexual scene, so parents of younger children should exercise some judgement.
Pretty good little time travel movie.......2006-04-09
Grand Tour - Disaster in Time is a decent movie with above average acting and writing. Jeff Daniels is the "name" actor in the cast, and does a respectable job of carrying the story and fleshing out his character. He plays Ben Wilson, a widower with terrible guilt feelings about his wife's accidental death and his less than noble reaction to the accident (he fled the scene).
Our story picks up on his life with his daughter Hillary as they struggle to finish their bed and breakfast inn. They are confronted with a tour bus full of people (time travelers from the future on a Grand Tour of history's great disasters, thus the title of the film) that want to rent his unfinished inn and won't take no for an answer. Turns out his inn is perfectly positioned for the group to witness a devastating meteor strike on the small town where Ben and his daughter live. After the meteor strike, Ben catches on to the group, and he follows them to an abandoned plant where they are preparing to witness a second ancillary disaster in the emergency shelter for the survivors that is set up at a school. When Ben sees what they are training their tourist interest upon, he realizes that daughter Hillary is volunteering in the school, and races to rescue her, arriving just seconds too late as the school explodes from a gas leak, killing her and everyone else.
In the concluding act of the movie, Ben acquires one of the traveler's time passports, allowing him to go back in time and prevent most of the deaths in the town from the meteor strike and prevent the gas explosion at the school, saving his daughter's life.
One of the nicer plot twists in this movie is the fact that the future time travelers found a bit more than they bargained for when they encountered this particular "bygoner" named Ben Wilson, who wasn't content to let them get away with their detached voyeurism but challenged them to regain their humanity and feel for the victims that they encountered on their tour. Like all good science fiction, this story touched upon the larger themes of what it means to go through this life and to truly be human in spite of the shortcomings of those around us.
All told, this is a very satisfying story. The effects are a little cheesy, and the supporting cast is weak, but the strength of the screenplay and the acting of Jeff Daniels help to make this a worthwhile movie. I recommend it, and give it 4 stars!
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