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The Man in the Moon is a 1991 American coming of age drama film. It was the final film directed by Robert Mulligan before his death in 2008, from a screenplay written by Jenny Wingfield. It stars Reese Witherspoon in her film debut, Sam Waterston, Tess Harper, Emily Warfield, and Jason London.
Oct 4, 1991 · A coming of age story set in the south of the U.S. in 1957, featuring Reese Witherspoon as a tomboy who falls in love with a neighbor boy. The film has Elvis Presley songs, family drama, and a bittersweet ending.
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- Drama, Romance
- Robert Mulligan
- 1991-10-04
Oct 4, 1991 · “The Man in the Moon” is like a great short story, one of those masterpieces of language and mood where not one word is wrong, or unnecessary. It flows so smoothly from start to finish that it hardly even seems like an ordinary film.
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).
Maureen Trant (Emily Warfield) and her younger sibling Dani (Reese Witherspoon) share a strong connection, but local boy Court Foster (Jason London) threatens to throw...
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- Robert Mulligan
- PG-13
- Sam Waterston
A romantic drama film directed by Robert Mulligan and written by Jenny Wingfield. See the full list of actors, producers, writers, composers, and other crew members who worked on this movie.
The Man In The Moon. 1991 · 1 hr 40 min. PG-13. Drama · Romance. Set in the South during the 1950s, a fourteen-year-old girl comes to terms with one of life's most powerful yet fleeting feelings: adolescent love. Subtitles: English. Starring: Reese Witherspoon Jason London Sam Waterston Tess Harper Emily Warfield. Directed by: Robert Mulligan.
