The Accidental Tourist refers to a series of books written by character Macon Leary (William Hurt), who helps business travelers to make their travel experience a bit better by giving them tips, such as to take packets of laundry detergent so that they can pack lightly yet still have everything they need at their disposal.
He returns from one of his trips to find his wife is leaving him. A year after their son died, she has decided that she cannot handle it any more and needs to get away. Being essentially destroyed, he simply moves on with his life. He fights for a while and then gives into the advances of a dog trainer who seems interested enough to pursue him (played by Geena Davis).
Life is normal enough until his nearly ex-wife returns and wants to try again. Of course, that means dumping the new love of his life, which doesn't seem right, but then it seems like he needs to give his wife one more shot, right?
There are moments in the movie that are entertaining, and the performances are really quite good, but it meanders a bit throughout and all-in-all feels like a couple of hours were wasted that could have been better served doing something else.
Macon makes a comment in the movie that he "doesn't really care for movies, they make everything seem so close up" (or something to that effect). In this case, it's too close up. I don't think the movie is bad, it just wasn't all that entertaining. If that's what you want, by all means see it. Just be ready for it.
Rated PG for adult content.
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