Moonlight Mile Review by Zara (4 Stars)

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Directed By
Brad Silberling

Written By:
Brad Silberling

Cast:
Jake Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Susan Sarandon, Ellen Pompeo, Holly Hunter, Bob Clendenin, Jim Fyfe, Mary Ellen Trainor, Allan Corduner, Holly Hunter, Careena Melia, Aleksia Landeau, Aleksia Landeau

Moonlight Mile (2002)

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Movie Review by Zara

October 1st, 2007

Bad Start, Good Ending

This is another one of those dramatic movies which doesn't put a large spin on what's going on with the characters within it. I was frankly quite annoyed with how the movie started, with Sarandon in the movie, it practically ached of being a reverse repeat of the abysmally bad ELIZABETHTOWN.

Perhaps it was just the time frame involved or the socio-economic background, I'm uncertain, but everyone seemed a little too calm in the face of not just a death but a tragic murder. How can parents of an only child who was killed while a man came into the diner she was eating at to kill his waitress wife manage to carry on as if nothing had really occurred?

OK, so I'm exaggerating a little. They do hurt, but I have a daughter and I just can't imagine not sitting around the house crying my eyes out hysterically every day if someone had killed her in that fashion. I'd either be that, or out for blood.

Once the movie gains a somewhat surprising revelation by Gyllenhaal (who is the weakest point in the movie - managing to mainly look constipated as his way of conveying depression) and really gets Ellen Pompeo into the mix (she's the best part), you start to understand a little better what's going on behind everyone.

The monologue by Sarandon, explaining why her marriage, which looks like it shouldn't work but does, is a great one. Simplicity is sometimes the very best definition.

It takes some time getting to where it's going, but if you give it some time to sink it, perhaps just like it might have taken the tragedy to really sink it, it's worth it.

As an aside, the writer/director of this movie, Bran Silberling, loosely based the film on personal experiences after the murder of his previous girlfriend, Rebecca Schaeffer. She was the young woman working on the sitcom with Pam Dawber ("My Sister Sam") who had a fan come to her door, asking for an autograph, turn around and shoot her.

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