Don't Come Back From the Moon

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In a dusty town at the edge of the world, the men of a small community begin to vanish one by one. Theories about their whereabouts swirl through the ether as their wives and teenage children wait for their return.

Cast & Crew

James Franco
Roman Smalley
Rashida Jones
Eva Smalley
Zackary Arthur
Kolya Smalley
Jeffrey Wahlberg
Mickey Smalley
Alyssa Elle Steinacker
Sonya Stecko
Hale Lytle
Nick
Henry Hopper
Ray
Scott Crane
Budd Stecko
Cheyenne Haynes
Jodie
Jeremiah Noe
Uncle John
Bruce Thierry Cheung
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Jay Davis
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James Franco
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Lauren Hoekstra
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Vince Jolivette
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Chananun Chotrungroj
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Joe Murphy
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Johnny Jewel
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  • The results feel like a cross between a bad student film and an overlong Levi's commercial.

    April 8, 2020 | Full Review…

    Ben Sachs

    Chicago Reader

  • There's a lot of poetry and soul to it.

    September 14, 2019 | Full Review…

    Justin Chang

    Los Angeles Times

  • The ethereally barren strangeness of both the locale and the bizarre events are fascinating.

    January 22, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…

    Sara Michelle Fetters

    MovieFreak.com

  • Small things transpire. Life-changing events happen. All of it framed in that one summer, where most days are about 90 percent despair and 10 percent hope and joy - but when you're 16, that 10 percent just might be enough to see you through to 17.

    January 19, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…

    Richard Roeper

    Chicago Sun-Times

  • For a movie that is supposedly about the consequences of absentee fathers, it sure has little of importance to say about the families they desert. The Moon deserves better symbolism.

    January 18, 2019 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…

    Odie Henderson

    RogerEbert.com

  • It's a very small movie with a very big emotional force that unfolds through the eyes of 16-year-old Mickey, sensitively played by promising newcomer Jeffrey Wahlberg.

    January 18, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

    Rex Reed

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