IMDb plot summary: The world of a young housewife is turned upside down when she has an affair with a free-spirited blouse salesman.
Directed by Tony Goldwyn. Starring Diane Lane, Viggo Mortensen, and Liev Schreiber.
This film has a few good moments that spice up an otherwise uninspiring little romantic drama. There are some interesting dynamics between Lane and her teenage daughter, played by Anna Paquin, who discovers her mother's affair and is completely disgusted to see her mother rebelling and experimenting the same way she herself wants to. Setting the film in 1969, during the summer of Woodstock and the moon landing, sets an interesting vibe of change and restlessness for the whole film. The long-term relationship between Lane and Schreiber is also more complex than it sometimes is in these stories. Of course, that plus the fact that Mortensen's character is a blank slate with literally nothing going for him but his sex appeal means that it's pretty easy to see which way the story's going to land, but the journey itself is... fine. No real complaints here but not much to write home about either.
How it entered my Flickchart:
A Walk on the Moon < Hustle & Flow
A Walk on the Moon > The Fox and the Hound
A Walk on the Moon > Dark City
A Walk on the Moon > Venom
A Walk on the Moon > Shame (1968)
A Walk on the Moon > Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmelites
A Walk on the Moon < Raising Cain
A Walk on the Moon > It Comes at Night
A Walk on the Moon < To Be or Not to Be (1942)
A Walk on the Moon < Malignant
A Walk on the Moon < My Girl
A Walk on the Moon < Christine
Final spot: #1787 out of 3494, or 49%.
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