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19 October 2007 (USA)
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Sometimes Being Different Is The Best Way To Fit In. more
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The curiously named, Moondance Alexander is a spirited teen living with her eccentric mother. She is...
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A Pinto Named After Nixon's Dog
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Kay Panabaker | ... | Moondance Alexander |
 | Don Johnson | ... | Dante Longpre |
 | Lori Loughlin | ... | Gelsey Alexander |
 | James Best | ... | Buck McClancy |
 | Sasha Cohen | ... | Fiona Hughes |
| Whitney Sloan | ... | Megan Montgomery |
 | Joe Norman Shaw | ... | Ben Wilson |
| Aedan Tomney | ... | Josh Wilson |
 | Greg Lawson | ... | Miles |
| Tom Carey | ... | Tom Wyman |
 | Landon Liboiron | ... | Freddie |
 | Julia Maxwell | ... | Rachel |
| Mimi Gianopulos | ... | Bella |
| Kirk Heuser | ... | Announcer |
| Brian Gromoff | ... | Judge Tyler |
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Netherlands:94 min
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Continuity: When Checkers gets up from colicing, Moondance doesn't have a lead rope on him, when it cuts back to her, a red lead rope is clipped onto Checkers' halter.
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References Super Size Me (2004)
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"Saddle Club" meets "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen" and "Bratz", as the prettiest friendless teenage girl in cinema history goes up against her "Queen Bee" nemesis in a local equestrian competition. Throw in a little "Pollyanna" here for good measure as the friendless girl manages to inspire the adults in her town to lead better lives.
Kay Panabaker plays the friendless girl (Moondance Alexander), and Kay is so pretty she makes figure skater turned aspiring actress Sasha Cohen look rather plain by comparison. And Kay is a polished enough actress with enough effortless charm to almost make this film work. Unfortunately she is saddled (pun intended) with one of the worst written scripts you are likely to ever encounter.
The best scenes are those where Panabaker is alone on the screen and the worst are those involving her teenage rivals-the dialog given to these inexperienced cast members is almost surreal in its staggering lameness.
The film is at least one back-story too many as there just isn't time to adequately cover Moondance coping with her father's death, reconciling her mother's new romantic interest, getting flirty with the son of her mother's boyfriend, saving stable owner Donte (Don Johnson) from a wasted life of alcohol abuse, turning her horse Checkers into a competitive jumper, and giving Roscoe P. Coltraine (James Best) a few moments of mild comic relief.
"Moondance Alexander's" target audience of preteen girls and Sasha Cohen fans wasn't enough for it to get a widespread theatrical release but it is available as a direct-to-DVD product. There is nothing original or exciting here but it is a pleasant enough family film. And the dare to be different theme is handled quite nicely.
Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.