A Walk on the Moon (1999)
Average Rating: 6.7/10
Reviews Counted: 36
Fresh: 26 | Rotten: 10
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Average Rating: 6.5/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 2
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The personal turning points of a family in crisis are portrayed against the backdrop of one of America's most tumultuous summers in this drama. In 1969, Pearl Kantrowitz (Diane Lane) is spending the summer at a resort in the Catskills. Married to TV repairman Marty (Liev Schreiber) and the mother of two children, respectably middle-class Pearl feels trapped by domestic life and inwardly lusts after a traveling salesman named Walker (Viggo Mortensen). When Marty is called back to the city one
Mar 26, 1999 Wide
Oct 2, 2001
Miramax
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Cast
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Diane Lane
Pearl Kantrowitz -
Liev Schreiber
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Anna Paquin
Alison Kantrowitz -
Viggo Mortensen
Walker Jerome -
Tovah Feldshuh
Lilian Kantrowitz -
Bobby Boriello
Daniel Kantrowitz
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All Critics (61) | Top Critics (16) | Fresh (27) | Rotten (10) | DVD (4)
Mortensen as Lane's clandestine love interest is nothing but a symbol of beauty and freedom.
Romance novel material, albeit it gussied up in a handsome, well-made package.
Beautiful performances!
How many films are about a woman's sexual awakening? A film that puts a woman's desire before family without offering a moral judgment or offering a male fantasy?
would make a fine companion piece to Ang Lee's 'The Ice Storm,' another tale of unhappy people trying to find themselves -- or lose themselves -- in other people's beds.
Actor Tony Goldwyn makes a striking directorial debut with the deeply nostalgic, truly heartwarming A Walk on the Moon.
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[font=Century Gothic]"A Walk on the Moon" is a facile and one-sided take on such overly familiar themes as infidelity and thwarted dreams that wastes a very fine cast in the bargain. The only reason for setting the movie in 1969 is as a reaction against the personal and political liberation of the time. On the one hand, it dives head first into the cliches of the time(Woodstock but it does get points for mentioning the Mets) but also thankfully points out that not everybody back then were hippies.(My parents certainly were not, even if I am.)[/font]
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- Lilian Kantrowitz: You think you're the only one who's dream didn't come true?
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