Serious Moonlight

Serious Moonlight (2009)

  • 24% of critics liked it
    (33 reviews)

  • 28% of users liked it
    (3,110 ratings)

When high-powered attorney Louise (Meg Ryan) learns that her husband, Ian (Timothy Hutton), plans to leave her after 13 years of marriage to run off with his twentysomething girlfriend, Sara (Kristen Bell), she impulsively decides to take drastic action. She ties up Ian in their country house, and… More

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R,
Directed By
Written By
Adrienne Shelly
Genres
Comedy
In Theaters
Dec 4, 2009 Wide
On DVD
Feb 9, 2010
Magnolia Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times

    Adrienne Shelly deserves better.

  • Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer

    More strident than funny, the film illustrates that old French proverb, "Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out."

  • Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times

    Serious Moonlight has its flaws, but then what marriage doesn't?

  • Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News

    Meg Ryan really needs to steer clear of embarrassments like this.

  • Tom Long, Detroit News

    It's a tribute to writer Adrienne Shelley and first-time director Cheryl Hines that, despite the film's flaws, it ultimately pulls off its unlikely tone.

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  • Alexis N


    Meg Ryan gets together with her French Kiss boyfriend, Timothy Hutton. She tapes him to a toilet this time, instead of letting him go to Paris. I loved this movie, not as much as French Kiss, but it's funny, sad, clever and an honest look at marriage.

  • Nicki M


    Disappointing. At least an hour of this, (and it only runs for just over 80 minutes), is just Meg Ryan and Timothy Hutton in a room. She has found out that he is about to leave her for his much younger mistress, played by Kristen Bell, and is not happy about it. As is usual with… More

  • Cynthia S


    Ok. Well, this isn't one of those big budget blockbuster romantic comedy films that most people expect from these two actors. It is a more subtle black comedy of sorts. Someone mentioned that it seemed more like a three act play, and it did. It was well done, and quite unusual in… More

  • Lorenzo v


    <i>"A relationship ending is like a death just two people know about. A whole life gets lost, everything we did together. All the places we traveled, the fights, the small moments of tenderness."</i> A high-powered attorney duct tapes her adulterous husband to… More

  • Cassie H


    Funny but not funny enough to receive a 5 star review.

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