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Alan Parker's "Shoot the Moon" is a film that sometimes keeps its painful secrets even from itself. It opens with a shot of a man in agony. In another room, his wife, surrounded by four noisy daughters, dresses for a dinner that evening at which the man will be honored.
Shoot the Moon Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Pauline Kael New Yorker. TOP CRITIC. When you see Shoot the Moon, you recognize yourself in it. Full...
86% Tomatometer 14 Reviews 75% Audience Score 500+ Ratings After years of marriage, the seemingly perfect relationship between accomplished writer George Dunlap (Albert Finney) and his wife,...
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Director Alan Parker (Midnight express, Angel Heart) made one of the most haunting movies about human reaction to a domestic crisis ever done with "Shoot the Moon." Featuring a beautifully written script by Bo Goldman (one flew over the cuckoo's nest) and well measured performances by a solid cast.
Shoot the Moon received mostly positive reviews from critics. On the Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a score of 85% based on 13 reviews, and an average rating of 7.72/10. Film critics Pauline Kael and David Denby, who had been dismissive of Parker's previous films, praised Shoot the Moon as his best directorial effort.
Feb 19, 1982 · Shoot the Moon: Directed by Alan Parker. With Albert Finney, Diane Keaton, Karen Allen, Peter Weller. A mother of four is abandoned by her husband for a younger woman. Husband, wife and children struggle to survive the seemingly inevitable divorce.
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This unapologetically grown-up movie about separating is perhaps the most revealing American movie of its era. Though the director, Alan Parker, doesn't do anything innovative in technique, it's a modern movie in terms of its consciousness.
