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Summary: Love and Rockets
Review: Sortof a harlequin romance with a bit of a twist, this charming movie is the story of a young wife and mother, Pearl, (Diane Lane) who is disillusioned with her life and her marriage and is beginning to regret the opportunities that have passed her by. She married early and settled into the role of wife and mother without really getting to experience her youth. Set in 1969, the year of Woodstock and the moon walk, Pearl, her husband, Marty, (Liev Schrieber), his mother, and their two kids travel to their yearly campsite in the Catskills, 2 hours north of New York City. The same cabin, the same scenery and the same people every summer, and, as usual, Marty has to remain in the city during the week working at his dead end job as a TV repairman to support their family. Pearl resents Marty's absence, and yearns for the freedom of being young again. As the story unfolds, Pearl finds herself attracted to a travelling blouse salesman who has come into the cabin grounds to set up shop. The turning point for Pearl is that fateful weekend of the moon walk, when Marty is unable to return from the city because of all the TV's needing repair work. So begins a voyage of discovery for Pearl, an awareness of her self that is paralleled well alongside her daughter's first tentative discovery of young love, Woodstock's discovery of free love, and a country's discovery of the world beyond. Diane Lane is superbly convincing as a hopeful, but despairing young woman and she is well supported by a strong cast of supporting actors. Anna Paquin is marvellous as the young teenage daughter, Viggo Mortenson is believable as the sensitive, hippy lover of Pearl, and Liev Schreiber is outstanding as the cheated husband. I really enjoyed this movie. It's kindof quiet and charming and takes an honest look at love, marriage and relationships.
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Summary: The "chick flick" label is unfair here.
Review: The moment I saw Liev Schreiber as a thirty-something father of a teenager, I thought, no way... But this movie, which suggests that producer Dustin Hoffman misses the halcyon late-Sixties Catskills, goes on to offer some wonderful portrayals and convincing dialogue. Housewife/mother Pearl (Lane) is suffering ennui as only a middle-class homemaker can, and unexpectedly finds comfort in the arms of the traveling blouse salesman (Mortensen). Her confusion, coupled with the turbulence of the encroaching Seventies ("Couldn't you set aside your beliefs for one day?" she pleads with her activist daughter [Paquin]) is completely believable, although I was a little disconcerted by the ease in which I accepted the idea that middle-class angst is an important issue. Meanwhile, Paquin undergoes her own adolescent revolution, becoming a woman, dating, French kissing, etc. etc., and as her trials are understood within the larger, supportive Jewish community (particularly that of her grandmother), the remnant Catholic (and current Irish) in me was fascinated and envious of the community members' obvious, unreserved affection for one another. As for Schreiber, his youth only occasionally betrays itself, and his acting keeps pace with Lane's and Paquin's (maybe my resistance to his casting is due to the lasting strength of his character in Daytrippers, a writer-wanna-be who earnestly clings to an idea for an existential novel about a half-man, half-dog. Why he agreed to Kate & Leopold is beyond me, though.) The male friend who accompanied me to A Walk on the Moon was clearly bored, suggesting that this movie might unfairly become lumped into that nefarious genre of "chick flick." Don't let that distract you; this is a good character study--now only if we could see similar films about NON-mainstream characters.
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Summary: A fun film full of beautiful faces and wonderful music!
Review: For those of us that can only wish we were there to experience the 60's generation, this is a sweet look at what we want to think really was going on in that period. Sure, maybe it's not historically accurate, but it is how I want to think it was. The music is outstanding - straying away from the obvious music you can always tie to the 60's generation, and playing lesser known, more folk music sets the mood for this film. "Summertime" by Janis Joplin (Big Brother & The Holding Company) and "Today" and "Embryonic Journey" by Jefferson Airplane make the movie for me! It's a tale of a "by the book" young Jewish mother who feels that she's missed her young adult years because she became a wife and mother too young. Enter Viggo Mortensen (aka, The Blouse Man), the quiet, beautiful hippie to sweep her off her feet, and show her just what she has been missing. If you're looking for a deep, meaningful look at real life in the 60's, this probably isn't the movie for you. However, if you want to watch a sweet movie that will take you away to another time for a couple hours, then I'd recommend it. Plus, it's got Viggo in it - there's no going wrong with that!
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Summary: Husbands, Rare Book Dealers & Blouse Men - Choices! Choices!
Review: Unfaithful was okay for a melodrama but a tad too idealized for my blood. Its hook at keeping me interested was Olivier MartinezÕs raw sexiness. Walk on the MoonÕs story is so much more interesting, erotic and poetic in obvious as well as subtle ways. 1st, Viggo Mortenson is a worthy temptation to stir the waters of doubt. The writers and actors present more conflict articulating a marriage at crossroads of changing times and a couple that married too young. There are also more interesting subplots. The husband (wearing toy cowboy attire or trying to dance to Jimi Hendrix), mother-in-law (strong and loving) and kids all add more interesting dimensions to the infidelity Diane Lane brings to the screen. She is not all selfish addiction and has more rounded reasons for seeking really rockinÕ bons temps with the blouse man. This added more suspense and satisfaction at the end. As enticing as ViggoÕs eyes and voice are, the soundtrack is rich and offers a pleasantly and sensually surprising selection of songs. I can pick which movie I prefer, but don't make me choose between Walker Jerome and Paul Martel. It just ain't fair.
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Summary: Nice Movie
Review: I enjoyed this movie - attractive people, funny setting and very good acting. I saw Diane Lane in Unfaithful before seeing this and can't believe the story lines are very similar. A happily married mother stumbles into marital infidelity and seems to love both her husband and the new guy. No violence, car chases or other nasty stuff - just a good romance gone awry movie very well done. Don't know why this one was passed over in the theaters.
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Summary: Review of Walk on the Moon
Review: I enjoyed this movie for a lot of reasons. I thought all the actors did a good job. There were no crashes, car or boat races, fist fights, murders, explosions, or special effects. Just the story of a woman realizing something important has passed her by as she watches her own daughter beginning to leave her childhood behind. I generally do not like the way sex scenes are done in movies -- they're more soft porn than anything else, I think. I hated such scenes in "Vanilla Sky." However, I must say the scene in the bus with Pearl and Walker is the most erotic, tastefully done such visual I've ever seen. It was sweet, intense, and romantic. Walker is thinking about what Pearl needs and wants, and his approach is slow, gentle, and giving. Without a direct, harsh view of full bodies, there is still no doubt about the moment of complete intimacy between them. Very nicely done. The end of the movie holds no surprises, but that's OK. I liked the time setting of 1969, and the view of Jewish life. Lane, Mortensen, and Pacquin are really good.
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Summary: Touching, intriguing movie.
Review: Diane Lane is simply one of the best actresses there is. Unfortunately, she is rarely seen on screen due to the fact that she is tasteful, has integrity, and is picky about her roles. In this movie, she plays a bored, burned-out housewife looking for romantic adventure. When it becomes clear to her that she isn't going to get that from her nice but straight-laced husband, she turns to a traveling blouse salesman, and the steam begins! They begin their affair on the night of the moonwalk and goes on through Woodstock. Anna Paquin does an outstanding job playing Lane's daughter, also experiencing a longing for some romantic attention. The chemistry between them is great. This film is definitely not for the judgemental. Still great, in my opinion.
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Summary: Love with Millions of Sighs
Review: Life does sometimes do cruel thing.
As a housewife with kids of 15 and 6, similar situation to Pearl (Lane)fs, and with my favourite actor Viggo Mortensenfs hippy man, I was, and still am, intoxicated by this film about different kind of loves that have shaken my heart tenderly.
It reminded me of my another favourite actor/director, Clint Eastwoodfs romantic film The Bridges of Madison County as a devoted wife of a good man in a calm marriage, if a little bit short of thrills, but happy with two children in its own way, meets a man; her potential Prince Charming. What do you do? You are already in the quick stream of passion with inconceivably pleasant but devilish bliss that you know would make you fall down to psychological hell after the festival ended.@
A Walk on the Moon is set in gtheh 1969, the year two major events on Earth happened. The first step of the mankind on the Moon and the Woodstock. Maybe that is why things went wrong with Pearl and her husband, Marty, and also her newly-became-a-woman daughter. Unlike in The Bridges of Madison County, Marty and, oh my god, fourteen year old daughter, who is going through a sensitive period herself, find out Pearlfs passionate love affair with the gBlouse Manh. The painfully beautiful glove in freedomh causes severe devastation first to Marty, and then to Pearl herself, and everybody.
Which would you choose between two different kind of loves; one that melts your heart with a sweet sigh but with acceptance of lasting guilt, the other one that is less passionate or romantic, but after the hard rain, would turn more secure like mountain?
In any case, I know thegBlouse Manh(with Viggo's face) never comes into my life.
That is the most cruel thing happening to my life right now. Well, canft be helped. Letfs just watch this film again and again with millions of sweet sighs.
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Summary: Love it!
Review: Like many, I bought this since I am a huge Viggo fan. I thought it was a GREAT movie all around. I LOVED all the performances, Liev Schreiber's, Anna Paquin's, Diane Lane's, Tovuh (?) the mother in law, AND Viggo's. This movie was passionate and sexy, and it also made me cry and laugh.
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Summary: A great film with a great actress in DIANE LANE
Review: A great film with a great actress in DIANE LANE This is one of the most powerful and thought-provoking films that I have seen in ages. The acting by Oscar nominee DIANE LANE (Under The Tuscan Sun, Unfaithful, Perfect Storm) is magical and she deservedly won a Golden Globe and Oscar nom for her performance in this great movie. It is so well made and so well observed. The story is very good and there are several powerful moments and some very touching bits too. I loved this film and felt that it passed the two hours so well and nicely. This is a great movie with the great DIANE LANE in great form. A brilliant movie that is sooo cool and so amazing. Just right!
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