In Reese's first movie, she's a tomboy, but she's still adorable in her transition out of adolescence, and as she's done in almost every other film since, she melts the hearts of the audience. It takes place in 1957, during the summer a teenaged Reese Witherspoon's life changes forever. His last film was The Man in the Moon, one of the most revered modern coming-of-age films. If there's any director in Hollywood who deserves a crown for conquering the coming-of-age genre, it's Robert Mulligan, director of To Kill a Mockingbird and Summer of '42. I would love to see films that make everything look real and is not phony or disbelievable in any way. This the kind of movie that I would like to see come out more often. All members of the cast pull off great performances and with the dialogue of the compelling screenplay, they are enhanced into looking like real people in real situations. You look at the young, talented actress as she is at age fourteen and you think that about ten years down the road, she's going to win the Academy Award. Also there is Tess Harper, Jason London, and a young, young Reese Witherspoon. It stars Sam Waterston, who is truly a versatile actor, well capable of playing tough district attorneys as well as strict, yet caring and wise fathers as in this film.
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The cast of "The Man in the Moon" is full of great talented names. And the story is so well developed that you believe the characters could really be in love, or are just so new to love that they just strongly believe they are and after a tragedy or so occurs, will believe it for the rest of their lives. And I do believe that as teens, it's the most dramatic. The second reason is that is a love triangle. All of us have been there in our lives and "The Man in the Moon" is a magnificent reflection upon our memories, maybe adding on a few more details and enhancing it further than any of us have experienced. People who are still in their teens and are experiencing love for the first time, or at least think they are. One, it concentrates of young people, VERY young people. Here's the kind of love story that I do enjoy watching.
This is one of the very best films of 1991. To date, this is Robert Mulligan's last film. There are feelings to sort out, lessons to learn, and truths to face in this sweet-natured film that packs an emotional wallop. Gail Strickland is good also as the boy's mother. Tess Harper and Sam Waterston play the girls' parents with dead aim accuracy for 1957, caring, strict, and emotionally simple.
The beautiful cinematography is by famed horror director Freddie Francis, who was in his 70's when this was shot. The music is wonderfully simple, accentuating the tone and mood from scene to scene, but never becoming intrusive. Kudos to the autobiographical screenplay from Jenny Wingfield this is one of the very few films about young love that is honest and consistent in tone without being emotionally dishonest or sensationalist. The film accurately depicts each adolescent's thoughts or feelings in regard to love with heartfelt sensitivity, never crossing over into maudlin excess even once. Warfield and London are both equally good as well. Reese Witherspoon is astonishingly good in her film debut, displaying every emotion that a 14 year old girl feels in experiencing young love and hurt, never striking a false note. Here he directs newcomers in the principal roles: Reese Witherspoon, in her film debut, as the 14 year old girl Emily Warfield, as the older sister Jason London, as Court, the 17 year old boy.
Mulligan is famous for previously directing Summer of '42 in 1971 and To Kill A Mockingbird in 1962, two giants of the coming of age genre. That is the simple premise of this beautiful, poetic coming of age film from Director Robert Mulligan. A 14 year old girl develops her first serious crush on the 17 year old boy that lives near by, while simultaneously trying to overcome her feelings of inadequacy in comparison to her older sister.
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