Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Geena Davis, Andy Garcia

Director: Stephen Frears

Summary: From Stephen Frears, the director of DANGEROUS LIASIONS and THE GRIFTERS, comes ACCIDENTAL HERO, an engaging comedy starring Dustin Hoffman, Geena Davis and Andy Garcia. Davis is ace reporter Gale Gayley, a woman who literally falls into the story of a lifetime when she's a passenger on an airplane that crashes into a Chicago bridge. In the smoke and darkness, she's saved by Bernie (Hoffman) a rude, foul-mouthed man who promptly disappears into the night--leaving only his shoe behind. When Gale's TV station offers one million dollars to the mystery hero, John, a gentle Vietnam vet (Garcia), appears to claim the prize--and share it with the city's homeless. But this screwball Cinderella story is complicated by the real hero, who is a small-time crook that nobody believes. Both men, it seems, have something heroic inside--as well as something to hide--and it's up to Gale to discover the truth.

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Dustin Hoffman plays a lowlife who happens upon a plane crash and rescues the passengers, but doesn't really care about the value of his deed or the attendant publicity when the media starts searching for the hero. Another fellow (Andy Garcia) steps into the gap and claims credit, and as his life changes for the better he takes on a Messianic glow. Geena Davis is the cynical television reporter who pushes the latter's fame in order to keep her story alive, and this film, directed by Stephen Frears (Prick Up Your Ears), takes a few familiar jabs at a manipulative and voyeuristic press. This is essentially an unofficial remake of Meet John Doe, though it is less dramatic and forceful in the end than Frank Capra's classic. Chevy Chase has an oddly anachronistic part as Davis' editor (maybe he thought he really was in Meet John Doe), but the film belongs to Hoffman, who makes his character a slightly cleaned-up version of the actor's own Ratso Rizzo in Midnight Cowboy. --Tom Keogh

Aspect Ratio:	1.85 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Filmographies, Trailer, Featurette
Subtitles:	Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
Year:	1992
Release Date:	July 4, 2005
Runtime:	113 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	C 823 593 4
Keywords:	Accidental, Comedy, Hero, General
Genre:	Comedy