Warren Zevon: Searching for a Heart

While a huge fan of Lawrence Kasdan's underrated classic film "Grand Canyon" (1991) where I first heard Warren Zevon's "Searching for a Heart" ("Lawyers, Guns and Money" is also played in a pivotal moment), and this very music video for the former song was made to promote the film soundtrack, I only found this clip out of curiosity after hearing the song in another movie, in Alan Rudolph's "Love at Large" where it was actually a theme composed for it but no one paid attention to both and only after Zevon's inclusion in his own 1991 album and Kasdan film used it that it became a somewhat well-known song.

Here's a marvelous soundtrack clip with the many memorable moments and the main characters from "Grand Canyon" along with Warren Zevon and his musicians performing the heart-warming track, during the black-and-white segments. It "stars" Kevin Kline, Mary McDonnell, Danny Glover, Steve Martin, Alfre Woodard and Mary-Louise Parker, as a group of friends, family and co-workers who live in a chaotic LA of the early 1990's trying to not succumb to their anixeties and problems of the modern world where finding love, friendship and hope for positive things feels like an impossible task as there's only violence and hopelessness in every corner. Zevon didn't compose the song for this particular film, yet it touches exactly the core of each character and each situation, and it's easy for audiences to relate with them or the scenarios they deal with.

As for the song, deep down we're all searching for a heart and one does not get a more universal theme than that.

It gets this glowing review from me for bringing back all the great positive memories I have with that amazing film, a great watch just as this video and this impecable song. 9/10.