The Man in the Moon (1991)
Maureen Trant and her younger sibling Dani share a strong connection, but local boy Court Foster threatens to throw their bond off balance. Dani and Court meet first and have a flirtatious rapport -- but when he meets Maureen, he falls hard and they begin a passionate affair. The new couple try to keep their love hidden from Dani, but she soon learns the truth, disavowing her sister. But a heartbreaking accident later reunites the girls.
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If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.
WOW what a film debut for the 14 year old at that time Reese! No wonder why she was cast for one of the leading roles and not for the extras she auditioned for... Her acting on the film explains her later took off in Hollywood. I think though that her recent movies don't do her justice.. Overall, a good film, with pretty scenery and good photography. Other than Reese and Mr Waterston, the rest of the cast is ok and so is the plot.
my heart is pounding while I write this review .my first love as a young girl imagines and fall for a boy who in turn is a victim of age affected romance. many scenes struck my mind like I was living my life back in my adolescence - don't know what to do in the 1st love. a girl's perspective along a boy's is seen in a perfect way. sometime words don't describe the feelings .same is the condition with me. I say innocent love is supreme. Love should be happening without any external factor.But it is life and nothing perfect can occur here.OK now I am being 2 emotional.
The film debut of 14-year-old Reese Witherspoon. Certainly the best young actress of that time. She would go on to win an Oscar some 15 years later with Walk the Line.I can't get over how young Sam Waterson (Law & Order) looks. He and Tess Harper are the parents of teenage girls. He is strict, but loving. They really seem to be real parents of teens. He comes through at the right time when things look hopeless.Dani (Witherspoon) has a crush on Court (Jason London). Coming of age comes early in Louisiana. Unfortunately, Court hasn't met her older sister Maureen (Emily Warfield).Things never leave the realm of the believable, and this was a beautiful story accompanied by a great music by Elvis and The Platters.
I like romances. Here's what I liked: the scenery (I got the "feel" of living in rural Louisiana, and that was great); and Matt's good, fatherly words to Dani on the boat were worth the movie. Here's where the movie failed me. Though I love Sam Waterston, I'm a northerner who's now lived in the South for 14 years, and see here and elsewhere that when northerners (Sam's from Boston) try to play Southerners, they get so much wrong, which Sam does. I like his fatherly role, but his style, mannerisms, and accent are just out of place as a Louisiana dad. If I were a Southerner, I'd feel very poorly represented. Sometimes the writing was just bad, with characters saying things way too "philosophy of life-ish." They were little monologues that were out of place. Lastly, with the writing, characters are sometimes having all this emotion one way or the other when "all that" wouldn't be possible to have built up in the character in the short time frame that the storyline proposes. There's betrayal in the movie that is simply accepted by all the characters (but one), so the person wronged is never given any sense of consolation or true apology. That left me wanting. Maureen's character was flat--in the end, I needed some kind of character growth (realizations) in her that the writer(s) never delivered. That was disappointing.