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The Man in the Moon

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The Man in the Moon
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PG13,1hr 45min
Genres:
Drama,Romance
Released:
October 4, 1991
Director:
Robert Mulligan
Distributor:
MGM
Starring:
Sam Waterston, Tess Harper, Gail Strickland  ...more
Synopsis: In its elegiac nostalgia for the days of childhood innocence, Robert Mulligan's The Man in the Moon recalls another of Mulligan's earlier films, To Kill A Mockingbird. Set in a Louisiana backwater town in the 1950s, the film chronicles the coming-of-age of a young teenage girl. Dani (Reese Witherspoon) is a fourteen-year-old girl who shares a room with her seventeen-year-old sister Maureen (Emily Warfield). During hot summer nights, they sleep on the screened-in back porch of their home, talking ... Full Synopsis
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Karl Williams, AMG Review
Director Robert Mulligan returns with great success to the stomping grounds of adolescent angst that proved so richly fruitful for him with To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) and The Summer of '42 (1971). The director's facility with young actors is proven again with a knockout performance from talented teenager Reese Witherspoon, delivering a fully developed, remarkably self-assured turn alongside such ... Full Review
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Sam Waterston
Matthew Trant
Tess Harper
Abigail Trant
Gail Strickland
Marie Foster
Reese Witherspoon
Dani Trant
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