Shoot the Moon

Shoot the Moon (1982)

  • 89% of critics liked it
    (9 reviews)

  • 67% of users liked it
    (634 ratings)

Director Alan Parker and writer Bo Goldman chronicle the emotional disintegration of an unhappy marriage. Albert Finney and Diane Keaton play George and Faith Dunlap, a seemingly happily married couple living with their four daughters in a converted farmhouse in Marin County, California. George is… More

R,
Directed By
Written By
Alan Parker, Bo Goldman
Genres
Drama
In Theaters
Feb 19, 1982 Wide

Critic Reviews

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    Adds nothing much to the genre of family dramas.

  • Dan Callahan, Slant Magazine

    Not only the finest work by Albert Finney and Diane Keaton and a major, unwieldy film about breaking up, Shoot the Moon is also Tina Yothers's finest hour.

  • Dan Callahan, Slant Magazine

    Parker and Goldman seem to want this battling couple to represent a sort of romantic '60s point of view, and they show up the younger lovers as shallow, '70s-style hedonists.

  • Steve Crum, Video-Reviewmaster.com

    High drama, albeit depressing, with Keaton and Finney in strong leads.

  • Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice

    A racking film which explores divorce with sensitivity and artistic skill.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Lucas M


    Good film about a unhappy marriage. But, Shoot the Moon is very emotional and have one of the worst end that I ever see, that makes the audience saw more, but unfortunately is impeded to see.

  • Jennifer X


    What an emotional rollercoaster of a film, what with all the platesmashing and slammed doors and running around. I really, really loved this in the first hour, but after the second hour brought more of the same drama, my appreciation for it dropped significantly.

  • jay n


    Great performances, sad subject matter.

  • Adam M


    lots of yelling and emotional explosions divided by tender moments of contact and stressed-out laughs; kid actors are good; best movie I've seen by Alan Parker, whose lurid fascination with painful episodes is held back by the great Bo Goldman's screenplay

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