The film is best when it's least strenuous, but too much of it tries too hard. There's a fine line between the kind of inspired whimsy to which ''Grandview, U.S.A.'' evidently aspires and the mildly misfiring farce that much of it is. Emmet Walsh make brief but welcome appearances. Howell is funny in the family scenes and suitably callow as the 17-year-old who asks 27-year- old Mike whether she is sensitive about her age. Swayze looks a lot like Kurt Russell and has something of the same good-natured presence and easy charm. Swayze and not giving an inch in the bargain. Miss Curtis is appealing even in the tough, tomboyish incarnation upon which the screenplay insists one scene has her negotiating the sale of a car while talking to Mr.
''Grandview, U.S.A.'' is slight, but it has a good enough cast to keep it watchable. Kleiser seems to have something like ''Handle With Care'' in mind, even though his film, unlike that one, lacks a unifying sense of humor. This finale is inconsequential enough to suggest that the movie's real purpose is flinging the characters together rather than leading them anywhere. It takes a long while to realize where ''Grandview, U.S.A.,'' which was written by Ken Hixon, is headed: It's headed for a tidy, happy ending that coincides with a picturesque Memorial Day parade.
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Also in Grandview, and not having any clear connection to either of the other equally unrelated principals until the movie is well under way, is Slam (Patrick Swayze), who is unhappy about the fact that his baby doll of a wife (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is fooling around with Troy Donahue.
Thomas Howell), whose fondness for aquatic animals may or may not have something to do with his accidentally submerging his father's brand-new white Cadillac in mud. There is Mike (Jamie Lee Curtis), who runs the demolition-derby arena passed on to her by her late father, and whose real name is Michelle. The movie has about three times as many of these characters as it needs.
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As directed by Randal (''Grease'') Kleiser, ''Grandview, U.S.A.'' depicts a little Middle Western community full of colorful oddballs, all of whom flaunt their eccentricities. The rest of it is not nearly so reassuringly ordinary. ''Grandview, U.S.A.''begins and ends with montages of small-town people doing small-town things.
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