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The Man In The Moon [DVD] [1992]
enlarge	Director: Robert Mulligan Actors: Sam Waterston, Tess Harper, Gail Strickland, Reese Witherspoon, Jason London Studio: MGM Entertainment Category: DVD List Price: ~~£12.99~~ Buy New: £2.34 as of 20/11/2009 23:38 GMT details You Save: £10.65 (82%) New (12) Used (4) from £2.34 Seller: fastdvd2006 Rating: 6 reviews Sales Rank: 25200 Format: PAL Language: English (Original Language) Rating: Parental Guidance Region: 2 Discs: 1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 95 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5050070010022 ASIN: B0000C88K4 Theatrical Release Date: October 4, 1991 Release Date: June 23, 2003 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 6 1 2 Next » A Beautiful Film January 15, 2003 8 out of 8 found this review helpful This poignant story is one of the most beautiful coming of age portraits ever filmed. It is set in rural Louisiana during the 1950's and is beautifully photographed and filled with love and tenderness. The focal point of director Robert Mulligan's (To Kill a Mockingbird, Summer of '42) story is a very young Reese Witherspoon in a role that should have made her a household name. This story of first love and the tragedy that follows will touch you in a way you'll remember for a long time.pSam Waterson is perfect as the gentle and kind husband and father Matthew who knows his two daughters are growing up faster than he can blink and has another one on the way. Tess Harper has another fine turn as his loving wife Abigail. There is a sweet and peaceful feel to this film that gets into your heart slowly in much the same manner as "The Spitfire Grill". It is that good.pDani (Reese Witherspoon) is the spunky but tender hearted younger sister who is beginning to cross the waters from kid to young woman at 14. Her adolescent crush on Elvis changes to something real when 17 year old Court Foster (Jason London) enters the picture. They both like to swim in the lake and become something more than friends but something less than a couple. Their relationship is handled in such a sweet and thoughtful manner you find youself embracing this film with your heart early on.pBut as much as Court cares about her she is to young for him and when chance brings he and her older sister Maureen (Emily Wakefield) together nature takes it's course and someone's heart is bound to break. This is a good and loving family and Dani and her older sister Maureen are close. They bicker as sisters do but Dani secretly worships Maureen and wants to be like her. Maureen loves Dani just as much but can't pass up the love of her life no matter how hard she might try.pCourt is also prtrayed as a very decent kid with the weight of the world on his shoulders who is trying to do the right thing and still be happy. Everthing about this feels real as there are no good guys and bad guys, just a truthful portrait of young love and growing up. Witherspoon is amazing and you can truly feel her heart breaking as she begins to disappear, only her memories of the lake and her first kiss to comfort her.pIt will take even more than a tragedy to bring Dani and Maureen back together and it is the wise and gentle father who takes Dani fishing and talks to her in a way every father hopes he will talk to his daughter under similar circumstances. Everyone is wonderful in this fine film and I am amazed it is not more widely known. It is truly something special.pI can not reveal what happens in the last part of this film but at the beginning we find Dani and Maureen talking on their front porch about 'The Man in the Moon'. Their mother always told them when they were young to tell their troubles to 'The Man on the Moon' and just keep talking untill they were all gone. Both Dani and Maureen discover when things are bleakest that 'The Man in the Moon' is truly each other.pThis film is warm, sweet, and heartrending. It is a wonderful find and different from just about anything else you will see on the subject matter. It is a film you'll want to own and watch over and over. Pick this one up today.... coming of age in the 1950's March 9, 2000 3 out of 4 found this review helpful Reese Witherspoon makes her screen debut as Dani a fifteen year old girl in the throws of her first love in 1950's America. The scenery is beautiful, Reese is superb as the sarcastic teen and the rest of the cast compliment her performance perfectly. This is one of my favourites! the man in the moon March 1, 2004 2 out of 9 found this review helpful well this movie is a great movies is there a book to it i would love to read it if there is.this movie stands out to me because of thefact that i once like an older person but no that doesn't matter well he didn't die though but i felt the same as this girl dani. "Is it always gonna hurt like this?" November 11, 2008 Kona (Emerald City) It's so hard to be fourteen, thinks Dani Trant; the closest she's been to falling in love is listening to Elvis on the record player and nobody seems to understand her anymore. It's not like when she was a kid and could tell her problems to the Man in the Moon and he'd solve them. Things change forever for Dani when a handsome boy moves in next door, she falls for him completely, but he has eyes for her sister. br / br /Reese Witherspoon made her film debut in this movie and she gives a wonderfully self-assured performance. She's part tomboy and all hormones and the combination is adorable and pure star quality. The movie is ably directed by Robert Mulligan who brought us "To Kill a Mockingbird," and this tender coming-of-age story is honest, spirited, and quite touching. Recommended for those who like down-home, slice-of-life stories; you won't be disappointed. Much more than moonshine June 18, 2004 littlepig littlepig (UK) 14 out of 14 found this review helpful This touching, gentle film marks Reese Witherspoon's impressive film debut. "The Man in the Moon" did not make the impact it should have done on the public, probably because it came out at the same time as "My Girl", which starred big names (Macaulay Culkin, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dan Ayckroyd). The films are slightly similar but the child actors in "Moon" far outshine the simpering affectedness of Chlumsky and Culkin in "My Girl" and it's a shame that Witherspoon's talent took longer to be discovered.pSet in 1950s Louisiana, this is a film about first crushes and true love; about the difficulties of parenthood and sibling rivalry; about when friendship teeters on the line of something deeper; about love and heartbreak. Danni, a tomboy headstrong 14 year old, feels overshadowed by her beautiful sister Maureen, but the relationship they have is close. When a new neighbour, Court Foster (sensitively played by Jason London) moves in, sisterly ties are tested. Danni moves from fantasy crushes on Elvis to her first real love; Maureen finds in Court the passion which has been missing from her previous relationships; and the Trant parents watch helplessly as their daughters grow up and apart, before being forced to come together in the face of tragedy.pBeautifully directed, the film can occasionally jolt the viewer when they least expect it (Danni's whipping, Marie's discovery in the field). I have only given it 4 stars rather than 5 because I feel the score by James Newton Howard (coincidentally he also wrote the music for 'My Girl'!) is rather cliched and sickly-sweet.pThe cast is superb, even the smallest characters are well-played and beautifully drawn (Court's troublesome younger brothers, the old lady in church) and several generations of stories told in approximately one and a half hours. "The Man in the Moon" works on many different levels and is a film to be treasured. Showing reviews 1-5 of 6 1 2 Next »

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