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Pontiac Moon

  • 19941994
  • PG-13PG-13
  • 1h 48m
IMDb RATING
5.6/10
790
YOUR RATING
Pontiac Moon (1994)
Drama
An absent-minded-professor father and his son bond during a symbolic road trip through the Western U. S. while his wife tries to overcome her neuroses to save the family.An absent-minded-professor father and his son bond during a symbolic road trip through the Western U. S. while his wife tries to overcome her neuroses to save the family.An absent-minded-professor father and his son bond during a symbolic road trip through the Western U. S. while his wife tries to overcome her neuroses to save the family.
IMDb RATING
5.6/10
790
YOUR RATING
    • Peter Medak
    • Finn Taylor(story)
    • Jeffrey D. Brown(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Ted Danson
    • Mary Steenburgen
    • Ryan Todd
    • Peter Medak
    • Finn Taylor(story)
    • Jeffrey D. Brown(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Ted Danson
    • Mary Steenburgen
    • Ryan Todd
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 20User reviews
    • 8Critic reviews
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    Pontiac Moon (1994)
    Pontiac Moon (1994)
    Pontiac Moon (1994)
    Ted Danson and Ryan Todd in Pontiac Moon (1994)
    Cathy Moriarty and Mary Steenburgen in Pontiac Moon (1994)
    Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, and Ryan Todd in Pontiac Moon (1994)
    Ted Danson and Ryan Todd in Pontiac Moon (1994)
    Cathy Moriarty in Pontiac Moon (1994)
    Ted Danson and Ryan Todd in Pontiac Moon (1994)
    Pontiac Moon (1994)
    Peter Medak in Pontiac Moon (1994)
    Pontiac Moon (1994)

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    Ted Danson
    Ted Danson
    • Washington Bellamy
    Mary Steenburgen
    Mary Steenburgen
    • Katherine Bellamy
    Ryan Todd
    Ryan Todd
    • Andy Bellamy
    Eric Schweig
    Eric Schweig
    • Ernest Ironplume
    Cathy Moriarty
    Cathy Moriarty
    • Lorraine
    Max Gail
    Max Gail
    • Jerome Bellamy
    Lisa Jane Persky
    Lisa Jane Persky
    • Alicia Frank
    J.C. Quinn
    J.C. Quinn
    • Bartender
    John Schuck
    John Schuck
    • Officer
    Don Swayze
    Don Swayze
    • Local
    Gene Borkan
    • Trucker with Cigarettes
    Ron Burke
    • Ranger
    Ramsey Ellis
    • School Kid
    Frank Carl Fisher Jr.
    • Fred Frook
    Suzanne Ircha Johnson
    • Waitress
    • (as Suzanne Ircha)
    Dewey Kellogg
    • Trucker with Broken Axle
    James Oscar Lee
    • Buffalo Bar Singer
    Tamara Wilcox-Smith
    • Buffalo Bar Singer
      • Peter Medak
      • Finn Taylor(story) (screenplay)
      • Jeffrey D. Brown(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      While playing a married couple in this film, Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen began an off-set romantic relationship. They were married in 1995.
    • Goofs
      Andy fires paper cups out of his bedroom window, leaves it open then moves to another window and climbs out on to the roof. The first window is now shown shut.
    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: Interview with the Vampire/Pontiac Moon/The Santa Clause/Heavenly Creatures/Dr. Strangelove (1994)
    • Soundtracks
      On the Road to Find Out
      Written and Performed by Cat Stevens

      Courtesy of A&M Records, Inc.

    User reviews20

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    7/10
    A clever production about a family, a road trip, and a journey to the moon.
    After seeing this movie I felt that the creators did a good job paralleling the expedition to the moon and the traveling of the father and son. The Indian, Eric Schweig, held the characters together through their trip and allowed them to patch up their relationship by leaving them alone. He continuously gives Andy good advice concerning life and his father. But what I couldn't figure out was why they had to drive through Montana to get to Idaho from California, it is completely out of the way. The plot evolves as the mother finally leaves the home after 7 years of being boarded up inside. Ted Danson plays the father who is a genius professor with a strange behavioral side to him. But not to give the story away I will stop now and leave the rest to those that are interested in it.
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    • Dec 8, 2002

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    • Release date
      • November 18, 1994 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
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    • Filming locations
      • San Rafael Ranch State Park, Patagonia, Arizona, USA
    • Production company
      • Paramount Pictures
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    Technical specs

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    • 1 hour 48 minutes
      • Color
      • Dolby

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