A Walk on the Moon (1999)
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72% of critics liked it
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66% of users liked it
(9,717 ratings)
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… More 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 weekend, Pearl impulsively arranges to meet Walker at a music festival going on in nearby Bethel, New York -- The Woodstock Music and Art Fair. However, Pearl doesn't realize that her teenage daughter Alison (Anna Paquin) has secret plans of her own, and when mother and daughter meet in the midst of hippiedoms's most celebrated moment, both have a lot of explaining to do, to each other and to Marty. A Walk On The Moon was produced in part by Dustin Hoffman, and premiered at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Directed By
- Tony Goldwyn
- Written By
- Pamela Gray
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- In Theaters
- Mar 26, 1999 Wide
- Studio
- Miramax
Critic Reviews
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Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid
Mortensen as Lane's clandestine love interest is nothing but a symbol of beauty and freedom.
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Michael Dequina, TheMovieReport.com
Romance novel material, albeit it gussied up in a handsome, well-made package.
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Beth Jones, Roanoke Times (Virginia)
Beautiful performances!
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Marcy Dermansky, About.com
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?
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James Sanford, Kalamazoo Gazette
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.
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Cast
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Diane Lane
as Pearl Kantrowitz
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Liev Schreiber
as Marty Kantrowitz
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Anna Paquin
as Alison Kantrowitz
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Viggo Mortensen
as Walker Jerome
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Tovah Feldshuh
as Lilian Kantrowitz
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Bobby Boriello
as Daniel Kantrowitz
