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'''''Intersection''''' is a 1994 [[romantic drama film]], directed by [[Mark Rydell]], and starring [[Richard Gere]], [[Sharon Stone]], [[Lolita Davidovich]] and [[Martin Landau]]. It is a [[remake]] of the [[French film]] ''[[Les choses de la vie]]'' (1970) by [[Claude Sautet]], the story — both filmed and set in [[Vancouver]], [[British Columbia]] — concerns an [[architect]] (played by Gere) who, as his classic [[Mercedes-Benz W113|Mercedes 280SL]] roadster hurtles into a collision at an intersection, flashes through key moments in his life, including his [[marriage]] to a beautiful but chilly heiress (Stone) and his subsequent [[affair]] with a travel writer (Davidovich).
== Plot
Vincent Eastman and his wife, Sally, run an architectural firm together. He is the architect and creative director while Sally handles the firm's business end. Unhappy in his marriage to Sally, with whom he has a daughter, Vincent
▲Vincent Eastman and his wife, Sally, run an architectural firm together. He is the architect and creative director while Sally handles the firm's business end. Unhappy in his marriage to Sally, with whom he has a daughter, Vincent's relationship as more of a business than a family.
Vincent encounters a journalist, Olivia Marshak
At first, deciding that the best course of action for everyone is for him to remain in his unhappy marriage, Vincent writes a letter to Olivia explaining that he is going back to his wife. Before he can mail it,
While speeding back to the city to be with Olivia, Vincent is in a car accident
The women part ways, each believing that she was Vincent's true love.
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* [[David Selby]] as Richard Quarry
* [[Jennifer Morrison]] as Meaghan Eastman (as Jenny Morrison)
* [[Veena Sood]] as Intern
== Reception ==
The film received poor reviews from critics, with [[Rotten Tomatoes]] presenting this film with a score of 9% based on 32 reviews. [[Roger Ebert]] described the film as "a belated reminder of one of the unmourned genres of earlier years, the Shaggy Lover Story, in which a doomed romance is told against a backdrop of impending heartbreak. The twist at the end is supposed to send you out of the theater blowing your nose, but the people around me seemed more concerned with clearing their sinuses."<ref>{{cite news|title= Intersection|publisher= [[Chicago Sun Times]]|url= http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F19940121%2FREVIEWS%2F401210301|access-date= 2012-06-01|archive-date= 2012-11-07|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121107175814/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F19940121%2FREVIEWS%2F401210301|url-status= dead}}</ref> [[Kenneth Turan]] in the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' wrote that the film, "as directed by Mark Rydell[,] is riddled with miscalculations. It is miscast, filled with characters who are incapable of eliciting sympathy, and relates a story so unsatisfying one can only wonder that it got made at all."<ref>{{cite news|title= MOVIE REVIEW : How to Approach This 'Intersection'|work= [[Los Angeles Times]]|url= https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-01-21-ca-13793-story.html|access-date=2012-06-01}}</ref> [[Janet Maslin]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' said that "as a soap opera elevated by its stellar cast and given the illusion of contemplativeness by repeated slow-motion shots of a car crash, ''Intersection'' really ought to be more fun. But despite the glossiness, it winds up seeming profoundly uneventful, perhaps because the car crash is the story's only real dramatic turn. The film's uncredited fourth star, the scenery of [[Vancouver]], adds visual appeal without raising the energy level, although [[Harold Michelson]]'s lavish production design will hold an audience's interest."<ref>{{cite news|title= Review/Film; One Man, Two Women and Scenes of Vancouver|work=[[The New York Times]]|url= https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9400E5D81530F932A15752C0A962958260&partner=Rotten%20Tomatoes|access-date=2012-06-01}}</ref>
The film received poor reviews from critics, with [[Rotten Tomatoes]] holding this film with a 10% rating based on 31 reviews.<ref>{{cite news|title= Intersection |publisher= [[Chicago Sun Times]]|date=|url= http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19940121/REVIEWS/401210301|accessdate=2012-06-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title= MOVIE REVIEW : How to Approach This 'Intersection'|publisher= [[Los Angeles Times]]|date=|url= http://articles.latimes.com/1994-01-21/entertainment/ca-13793_1_intersection-movie-eastmans|accessdate=2012-06-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title= Review/Film; One Man, Two Women And Scenes Of Vancouver|publisher=[[The New York Times]]|date=|url= https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9400E5D81530F932A15752C0A962958260&partner=Rotten%20Tomatoes|accessdate=2012-06-01}}</ref> It also won Sharon Stone a [[Golden Raspberry Award]] and a [[Stinkers Bad Movie Awards|Stinker]] award<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/1994/1994st.htm |title=1994 17th Hastings Bad Cinema Society Stinkers Awards |date= |accessdate=May 10, 2013 |work=[[Stinkers Bad Movie Awards]] |publisher=[[Los Angeles Times]] |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061017171708/http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/1994/1994st.htm |archivedate=October 17, 2006 }}</ref> for Worst Actress for her performance in the film (also for ''[[The Specialist]]'').▼
The film opened to mixed reviews in Vancouver itself. Peter Birnie of the ''[[Vancouver Sun]]'' wrote that the film "is all Canadian – and the best evocation of Vancouver ever seen on screen", but decried its numerous cliches and its "confusing flashback-within-flashback format that's one hard act to follow."<ref>{{cite news|title= Vancouver scenery shines at Intersection|work=[[Vancouver Sun]]|url= https://vancouversun.newspapers.com/article/the-vancouver-sun/126949612/|access-date=2023-06-23}}</ref> More critical of the film was Lee Bacchus of sister newspaper ''[[The Province]]'', who wrote that "director Mark Rydell doesn't seem to know how to kickstart this intriguing yet ultimately boring drama into overdrive. It looks good but doesn't have any spark. It coasts on some solid, subtle and mature work from Gere and company but spins its wheels in its own bland bog of inertia. The car crash – an elegant slow-motion symphony of impending doom – provides the opening frames of ''Intersection'' but stops short of actual impact. So does the movie."<ref>{{cite news|title=Intersection hits speed bump|work=[[The Province]]|url= https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-province/126949600/|access-date=2023-06-23}}</ref>
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=== Box office ===
The film opened at number 3 at the US box office on its opening weekend behind ''[[Mrs. Doubtfire]]'' and ''[[Philadelphia (film)|Philadelphia]]'',<ref>{{cite news|title= Weekend Box Office : Ticket Sales Up Despite Mother Nature |work= [[Los Angeles Times]]|url= https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-01-25-ca-15008-story.html|access-date=2012-06-01}}</ref> and went on to gross $21.3 million in the US and Canada. It grossed $40 million overseas<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=September 11, 1995|page=93|title=UIP's $25M-Plus Club}}</ref> for a worldwide gross of $61.3 million against a $45 million budget.
=== Year-end lists ===
* 9th worst – Dan Craft, ''[[The Pantagraph]]''<ref>{{cite news|last=Craft|first=Dan|date=December 30, 1994 |title=Success, Failure and a Lot of In-between; Movies '94|newspaper=[[The Pantagraph]]|page=B1}}</ref>
* Top 10 worst (not ranked) – Dan Webster, ''[[The Spokesman-Review]]''<ref>{{cite news|last=Webster|first=Dan|date=January 1, 1995|title=In Year of Disappointments, Some Movies Still Delivered|newspaper=The Spokesman-Review|edition=Spokane|page=2}}</ref>
*Dishonorable mention – Glenn Lovell, ''[[San Jose Mercury News]]''<ref>{{cite news|last=Lovell|first=Glenn|date=December 25, 1994 |title=The Past Picture Show the Good, the Bad and the Ugly -- a Year Worth's of Movie Memories|newspaper=[[San Jose Mercury News]]|page=3|edition=Morning Final}}</ref>
* Worst (not ranked) – Bob Ross, ''[[The Tampa Tribune]]''<ref>{{cite news|last=Ross|first=Bob|date=December 30, 1994|title=Versed in the worst|newspaper=[[The Tampa Tribune]]|page=18|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tampa-tribune/126948976|edition=Final}}</ref>
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