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Director:
Writer (WGA):
Jenny Wingfield (written by)
Release Date:
4 October 1991 (USA) more
Tagline:
Remember when you couldn't wait for your life to begin... and then, one day, it did?
Plot:
Rural Louisiana, summer of 1957, Elvis is King. At 14, Dani is coming of age. Her older sister is beautiful... more | full synopsis
Awards:
2 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(2 articles)
DVD Playhouse--November 2009
(From The Hollywood Interview. 9 November 2009, 7:05 PM, PST)
Mockingbird Director Mulligan Dies
(From WENN. 21 December 2008, 11:53 PM, PST)
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beautiful love triangle story more (95 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Sam Waterston | ... | Matthew Trant | |
| Tess Harper | ... | Abigail Trant | |
| Gail Strickland | ... | Marie Foster | |
| Reese Witherspoon | ... | Dani Trant | |
| Jason London | ... | Court Foster | |
| Emily Warfield | ... | Maureen Trant | |
| Bentley Mitchum | ... | Billy Sanders | |
| Ernie Lively | ... | Will Sanders | |
| Dennis Letts | ... | Doc White | |
| Earleen Bergeron | ... | Mrs. Sanders | |
| Anna Chappell | ... | Mrs. Taylor | |
| Brandi Smith | ... | Missy Trant | |
| Sandi Smith | ... | Missy Trant | |
| Derek Ball | ... | Foster Twin | |
| Spencer Ball | ... | Foster Twin |
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Runtime:
99 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Iceland:L | Canada:R (Canadian Home Video rating) | Argentina:13 | Australia:PG | Chile:14 | Germany:6 | Spain:13 | Sweden:11 | UK:PG | USA:PG-13 (No. 30935) | Canada:G (Nova Scotia) | Canada:PG (Ontario)
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Jeremy London, Jason London's twin brother, filled in for some shots in the movie, such as Dani and Court's drive into town. more
Goofs:
Anachronisms: When Dani is sitting on the bed, on the wall behind her is a photo of an older Elvis that was not taken by 1957 (when the movie took place) but taken in the mid to late 1960's. more
Soundtrack:
Loving You more
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Here's the kind of love story that I do enjoy watching. And mostly, it's for two reasons. One, it concentrates of young people, VERY young people. People who are still in their teens and are experiencing love for the first time, or at least think they are. All of us have been there in our lives and "The Man in the Moon" is a magnificent reflection upon our memories, maybe adding on a few more details and enhancing it further than any of us have experienced. The second reason is that is a love triangle. And I do believe that as teens, it's the most dramatic. And the story is so well developed that you believe the characters could really be in love, or are just so new to love that they just strongly believe they are and after a tragedy or so occurs, will believe it for the rest of their lives.
The cast of "The Man in the Moon" is full of great talented names. It stars Sam Waterston, who is truly a versatile actor, well capable of playing tough district attorneys as well as strict, yet caring and wise fathers as in this film. Also there is Tess Harper, Jason London, and a young, young Reese Witherspoon. You look at the young, talented actress as she is at age fourteen and you think that about ten years down the road, she's going to win the Academy Award. All members of the cast pull off great performances and with the dialogue of the compelling screenplay, they are enhanced into looking like real people in real situations. As if it all really happened. This the kind of movie that I would like to see come out more often. Love story or not. I would love to see films that make everything look real and is not phony or disbelievable in any way.