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A Walk on the Moon (1998)
Director: Tony Goldwyn
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
It's 1969. As moon-walking Apollo astronauts take giant steps for mankind, hippies invade Woodstock and students protest against the Vietnam War, Jewish housewife Pearl Kantrowitz (Lane) enjoys her own summer of love at a traditional Catskills holiday resort. While her TV repairman husband Marty (Schreiber) slaves away back in town, and her teenage daughter Alison (Paquin) flirts with adulthood, Pearl wears tie-dye, goes skinny dipping and gets it on with Walker Jerome (Mortensen), a handsome hippie who finances his freewheeling lifestyle by selling blouses. As the frustrated wife, Lane is both sensual and sympathetic, although the scrupulously fair screenplay is clear about the costs of her liberation. Schreiber conveys a stolid dignity as the hardworking husband whose limited worldview is shattered by his wife's infidelity. A modest, lovingly crafted melodrama, but regrettably, this first feature from actor-turned-director Goldwyn (who played Patrick Swayze's duplicitous colleague in Ghost) never integrates its parochial setting and intimate emotional conflicts with the broader social canvas, which in the event feels more like a historical backdrop than a dramatic context.Author: NF
Cast & crew
Director: Tony Goldwyn
Producer: Dustin Hoffman, Tony Goldwyn, Jay Cohen, Neil Koenigsberg, Lee Gottsegen, Murray Schisgal
Cast: Diane Lane, Viggo Mortensen, Liev Schreiber, Anna Paquin, Tovah Feldshuh, Bobby Boriello, Stewart Bick, Jess Platt full cast
Duration: 107 mins
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