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Henry 'Hopper' Nash
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Racing with the Moon is a 1984 American drama film directed by Richard Benjamin, written by Steve Kloves, and starring Sean Penn, Elizabeth McGovern and Nicolas Cage. The original music score was composed by Dave Grusin. The film's title derives from the 1941 hit song of the same name by Vaughn Monroe.
- $6.5 million
- Dave Grusin
- March 23, 1984
Mar 23, 1984 · Racing with the Moon: Directed by Richard Benjamin. With Sean Penn, Elizabeth McGovern, Nicolas Cage, John Karlen. In 1942 California, two young men await induction into the U.S. Marines and say goodbye to their girlfriends.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Richard Benjamin
- 1984-03-23
Hopper starts a campaign to win Caddie's heart, by slipping her flowers anonymously and tracking her down in the high school library. It appears that Caddie is a rich kid who lives in the house on the hill. But she likes Hopper anyway, and he likes her, and "Racing With the Moon" turns into a love story. Advertisement.
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Rutanya Alda. Mrs. Nash. Watchlist. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. In their last weeks before deployment to World War II as Marines, teenage friends Henry Nash (Sean Penn) and Nicky (Nicolas Cage)...
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- Richard Benjamin
- PG
- Sean Penn
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In the Christmas of 1942, in Point Muir, California, the seventeen years-old Henry "Hopper" Nash is the best friend of the reckless Nicky, who dates the local Sally Kaiser. Henry and Nicky have enlisted themselves in the U.S. Marines and they are waiting to be summoned to travel very soon.
