Moonlight Mile treats grief like a new product on the Home Shopping Network, wrapping it in bright packaging, giving it a snappy catchphrase and offering a special deal that's good only for the next two hours.
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Reviews Counted:139
Fresh:89
Rotten:50
Average Rating:6.5/10
Consensus: Though the story feels rather contrived, Moonlight Mile is redeemed by the good performances of its cast.
Theatrical Release:Sep 27, 2002 Limited
Box Office: $6,717,828
Synopsis: Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, and Susan Sarandon, MOONLIGHT MILE is a romantic drama set in 1966. Joe (Gyllenhaal) is grieving over the death of his fiancee, Diana, and is living with... [More]
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Susan Sarandon, Holly Hunter
Director: Brad Silberling
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Reviews for Moonlight Mile
Top Critic"Moonlight Mile" is like a defanged "In the Bedroom," but it finds emotional truth amidst its gimmickry.
10/04/02
In his determination to lighten the heavy subject matter, Silberling also, to a certain extent, trivializes the movie with too many nervous gags and pratfalls.
10/03/02
Mr. Silberling's vision never makes a seamless transfer to the screen.
10/03/02
Top CriticIt's a half-a-hankie tearjerker, a meek, polite weepie.
10/03/02
Inside Moonlight Mile, an honest and heartbreakingly true movie is struggling to get out.
10/03/02
A funny/sad family melodrama that is neither as funny nor as sad as it wants to be.
10/03/02
The individual parts of the film are much better than the whole. But it's high-minded and worth experiencing for those parts: the performances, the alternately funny or touching scenes.
10/03/02
There's a keen intelligence in the writing that manages to convey that these are real people and not just cut-outs.
10/03/02
The type of movie you return to often, even if you never watch it again.
10/03/02
Manipulative and brush-stroked with so much Disney gloss it looks polyurethaned.
10/02/02
Top CriticSilberling can't resist stretching this initially affecting story past its breaking point, resulting in a pat, predictable drama with the emotional depth of a TV movie.
10/02/02
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10/02/02
[Brad] Silberling has prescribed a self-cathartic cinematic tale that both spiritually allows him to deal with a tremendous personal tragedy while also sharing a powerfully written dramatic narrative, filled with tenderness and comic flourishes, with his
10/02/02
My response to the film is best described as lukewarm. Maybe I found the proceedings a little bit too conventional.
10/02/02
Starts out as though it's going to be funny, sad and smart, but ends up merely as soggy.
10/02/02
Not as powerful a film as last year's In the Bedroom, which focused on a similar family tragedy. But it's more realistic, and more moving in many ways.
10/02/02
Sure, I hated myself in the morning. But then again, I hate myself most mornings. I still like Moonlight Mile, better judgment be damned.
10/01/02
Sarandon, Hoffman and the still-emerging Gyllenhall all deliver great performances, but this sad-sack flick falls short of its potential.
10/01/02
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