A Walk on the Moon

Starring:Diane Lane, Viggo Mortensen, Liev Schreiber, Anna Paquin, Tovah Feldshuh, Bobby Boriello, Julie Kavner, Star Jasper, Stewart Bick, Jess Platt, MahÃ©e Paiement, Ellen David, Lisa Bronwyn Moore, Victoria Barkoff, Tamar Kozlov, Lisa Jakub, Joseph Perrino, Jesse Lavendel, James Hayes Liboiron, Howard Rosenstein (II)
Director: Tony Goldwyn
Studio: Miramax
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
Amazon.com
Although its tale of marital crisis unfolds a bit too cleanly, A Walk on the Moon--which was coproduced by Dustin Hoffman--offers a welcome relief from the juvenile assault of skull-throbbing blockbusters. The story is gently involving, the characters are authentic, and, best of all, Diane Lane is given a chance to show why she's one of the most genuine and underrated actresses of her generation. Here she plays Pearl Kantrowitz, a devoted housewife on a routine vacation in the Catskills with her TV repairman husband Marty (Liev Schreiber), 14-year-old daughter (Anna Paquin), and rambunctious younger son (Tovah Feldshuh).

Amazon.com

Although its tale of marital crisis unfolds a bit too cleanly, A Walk on the Moon--which was coproduced by Dustin Hoffman--offers a welcome relief from the juvenile assault of skull-throbbing blockbusters. The story is gently involving, the characters are authentic, and, best of all, Diane Lane is given a chance to show why she's one of the most genuine and underrated actresses of her generation. Here she plays Pearl Kantrowitz, a devoted housewife on a routine vacation in the Catskills with her TV repairman husband Marty (Liev Schreiber), 14-year-old daughter (Anna Paquin), and rambunctious younger son (Tovah Feldshuh).

Description

Dustin Hoffman presents Diane Lane (MURDER AT 1600, JACK), Liev Schreiber (SPHERE, SCREAM I&II), and Viggo Mortensen (A PERFECT MURDER, THE LORD OF THE RINGS) in a provocative and sensual story about one woman's personal sexual revolution! It's the summer of 1969 and Pearl (Lane) is spending yet another vacation with her family when she realizes that the freedom of the times is passing her by. Following a chance meeting with a sexy, free-spirited young man (Mortensen), Pearl is soon doing the unthinkable: having a daring, passionate affair! Also starring Academy Award(R)-winner Anna Paquin (Best Supporting Actress, THE PIANO, 1993; SHE'S ALL THAT) in a powerful motion picture that's been called one of the year's best -- Pearl must ultimately decide between the love of her husband and children ... or the lure of her newfound desires!

Customer Reviews:

one of Viggo's best.......2007-06-14

This is one of many excellent small films that starred the wonderful Viggo Mortensen, and gained him fans like me long before Lord of the Rings. A subtle, simple yet personal story, Diane Lane is great, too. In our dreams, we all run away with the sexy "blouse Man," but reality sadly sets in...

Why can't we review the DVD instead of the FILM?.......2007-06-04

I think that is a very fair question, considering the gushing over the film and five star ratings for the DVD. Ordering it on a whim, I have to point out now that this disc has never seen so much as a frame of playtime on my 32" plasma set, and never will. The reason is abundantly clear during the opening credits. The jagged edges in the credit text, visible on a 19" CRT, leave one wincing at a bad viewing experience about to be had. A viewing on any PC software such as PowerDVD reveals why this disc is so hard to look at. Clearly taken from an interlaced source, a frame-by-frame viewing shows the line structure becoming visible whenever there is any kind of motion. In summation, this is a dog of a DVD, and even if you seriously dislike the film itself, you cannot argue that any film does not deserve better.

Walk on the Moon.......2007-04-11

Wonderful movie. Just like it was in the 60'd when everyone kind of went crazy. I think she should have gone with Walker.

Petting and Pawing in the Catskills.......2007-03-29

I get an emotional kick out of A Walk on the Moon, its double-entendre title aside. For me, the DVD is a winner for three reasons: 1) Viggo Mortensen plays a romantic (OK, lusty) leading man; 2) Diane Lane does her unfaithful best three years before her Academy Award-winning turn opposite Richard Gere in Unfaithful; and 3) I get to experience, albeit vicariously, a smidgen of the goings-on at summertime resorts in the Catskills. Let me work my way backward. ...

As a tween living on the East Coast in the mid-'70s, I recall my cousins' families and mine driving upstate to Sullivan County, New York, several weekends out of every summer. Destination: Great big country house a la The Waltons. With my cousins and I belting out every lyric to sunny songs such as The Captain and Tennille's "Love Will Keep Us Together" and Elton John's "Philadelphia Freedom" as their melodies bounced around the car and out of the open windows, life felt as if it could not get any better. Approaching the Catskills, we would read aloud the colorful billboards announcing the different summer resorts. One time I got up the nerve to ask the adults in the car why we never went to any of those resorts and was told matter-of-factly that we would not be accepted there. So as I got older, I always fantasized that the Catskills resorts had to be boatloads of fun to be so exclusive and all. Dirty Dancing (20th Anniversary Edition), while fictional, definitely gave me a glimpse into the exciting lifestyle behind those wonderful billboards. All of this to say that when watching A Walk on the Moon, I feel like an outsider looking into a life I never had the privilege to enjoy. ...

A Walk on the Moon also has many cinematic elements in its favor: breathtaking cinematography, a painstaking attention to time and place, and authentic regional dialects and vernacular. For those viewers who perceive the film's pacing as long and drawn-out, I challenge them with this paradigm shift: Think of the slow pacing as a metaphor for lust's fever running its course amid summer's sweltering heat. ...

Diane Lane is a force to be reckoned with when she portrays a character whose marriage just isn't working out. A Walk on the Moon predated Unfaithful (Widescreen Edition) by three years, so we viewers get a chance to see how she has perfected acting out the visceral female erotic response that perhaps many women envy. That pivotal scene in the van in which she and the Blouse Man seem totally oblivious to a major milestone in world history is no less intense than the scene in Unfaithful when she is on the train reminiscing about quivering beneath (hunka-hunka-burnin'-love luscious) Olivier Martinez hours earlier. Watching her squirming in her seat on that train, as she alternates between bliss and angst, I felt as if I had experienced the affair! In fact, I have had to hit the Pause button on the remote, leave the room and ice down my forehead.

Lane knows how to embody a free spirit, whether in Unfaithful, in which her character double-crosses her attorney husband -- who ironically stakes his career on loyalty -- in Under the Tuscan Sun (Widescreen Edition), where American divorcee meets Fellini's La Dolce Vita (Deluxe Collector's Edition), or here, in A Walk on the Moon. ...

Lastly, the No. 1 reason I love A Walk on the Moon is Viggo Mortensen. His gaze alone is intense. He possesses a certain je ne sais quoi, an erotically hypnotic, intangible quality that actors such as Clark Gable, Marlon Brando and Steve McQueen translated very well on screen. Serving as brilliant contemporary examples would be Robert DeNiro, Idris Elba and Clive Owen. Oh, and Daniel Sunjata (oh, sing a joyous, sweet Noel). Female actors who also have that seductive quality include Kathleen Turner and Faye Dunaway as past examples; Jessica Lange, Angelina Jolie and Vivica Fox as current examples.

This DVD, A Walk on the Moon, has the starpower and emotional depth of a retro classic. Oh, and by the way, if the Blouse Man does not inspire you to go shopping, please check your pulse.

Diane Lane is a sexual goddess.......2007-01-14

Diane Lane stars in this great movie set in 1969 upstate New York. Pearl is the wife of Marty and mother of Pearl and she should be spending the summer relaxing at a Jewish camp while watching the kids. She meets a hippie salesman who awakens her inner sexual goddess. Her life falls apart though when her teenage daughter, trying to rebel herself, catches her mother. Pearl must then face the difficult decision of staying with her family or following her heart. Or maybe she can have both.

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secret handlers ?or just poor research?
Blinded by the Moon
Another American Myth bites the dust
GOOD - LOOK AT THE EVIDENCE WITHOUT THE FILTER OF POLITICAL PREFERENCE.,
need proof? Look at the Navy's moon images

What Happened on the Moon
Starring: What Happened on the Moon
Manufacturer: UFO TV
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Space Exploration | Documentary | Genres | DVD | Video

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A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Moon
Dark Moon: Apollo and the Whistle-Blowers
Apollo II: Monkey Business (False Photography Unedited)
How America Faked The Moon Landings
We Never Went to the Moon: America's Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle

ASIN: B0007UVXI6
Release Date: 2005-03-01

Description

"If some of the film was spoiled, it's remotely possible they [NASA] may have shot some scenes in a studio environment to avoid embarrassment." - David Groves, PhD. This compelling video throws into serious doubt the authenticity of the Apollo missions and features information that challenges the declared abilities of NASA to successfully send a man to the Moon and return him safely to Earth.

New evidence clearly suggests that NASA hoaxed pictures allegedly taken on the lunar surface. These findings are supported by analysis and the testimony of experts from various disciplines, including photographer/filmmaker David S. Percy ARPS and physicist David Groves PhD.

Hear what NASA has to say in response to these disturbing findings.

Customer Reviews:

secret handlers ?or just poor research?.......2007-05-27

Why is it that we must always assume that there are government agents dressed in black or an extra-terrestrial controlling our daily lives and plans for the future?Why is it that all these conspriacy theory,ufo,close encounter crowds can't look at the whole picture.We did land on the moon,I believe some people have taken the movie Capricorn one too serious...really.I wonder if any of these people have any kind of degree from a real college or university (from here on earth I mean)relating to space, aero dynamics or physics of any kind.I believe we have had visitors from space.There have been too many sightings and reports from all over the world for you not to believe.People do not share the same hallucination.Could we,(as a whole on the earth) afford to have interaction with these visitors from outer space?We can hardly deal with our own here on earth,how could we possibly deal with others from another world or another galaxy?We are ready to kill and murder one another over selfish and idiotic wants and needs.Would we treat these beings from outer space as gods or big brothers?What could they teach us that we already don't know.(love thy neighbor,feed the needy,work for peace on earth...etc;etc.)How could we deal with new technology from higher beings when we use the current technology to such and for such evils against our own fellow man.These guys who wrote and produced this video should be ashamed of themselves.,considering so many men and women have died to achieve one small step for man...and all men kind.

Blinded by the Moon.......2007-04-18

I can no longer believe anything that the main stream media or government says. It is so obvious that the pictures from the moon were faked. The radiation problems are so immense that it is no wonder that they have not dared to fake this again in the last 40 years - and their new missions to the moon will be very interesting

Another American Myth bites the dust.......2007-03-19

This is a very detailed investigation on how we could not have gone to the moon. It is amazing how many fairy tails we are expected to swallow and believe as fact. And we are to curse anyone who, using logic and facts exposes the truth.

GOOD - LOOK AT THE EVIDENCE WITHOUT THE FILTER OF POLITICAL PREFERENCE., .......2007-01-07

THE PROBLEM IS THIS: 40+ YEARS (AND MILLIONS OF HOURS) OF MEDIA SAYING THE MOON LANDINGS WERE REAL, AND ONLY A FEW YEARS ARGUING AGAINST THEM.

So everyone coming to this film has had years of being told the official line. That's a lot to compete with and a lot to flush out of the brain.

Just imagine if the USSR (Russia) had carried out the moon landing.
Imagine the dent in US national pride. Well if this film had then come along and accused the USSR of faking the landing.
The US support would have been in the majority - 'of course Russia did not land on the moon' everyone would have chorused.

The problem is that most people see such an historic event, an event that has come to be seen as 'man's' greatest achievement, through political filters.

No if Russia had done it, becuase we don't WANT them to have done,
or YES if the US did it, beacuse we'd WANT that.

Looking at the evidence presented in the films, and looking at the official responses, and debunking, the case for a faked moon landing is over the 1/2 way mark - so its more likely that it was faked than real.

I suggest you watch his films for yourself, and decide for yourself, and try not to let any preconcieved ideas filter what you see.

An interesting fact: When the Soviets managed to build a system that could track rockets from the earth to the moon, the remaining 3 Apollo missions were all suddenley cancelled.

need proof? Look at the Navy's moon images.......2006-09-17

I remember the entire race to the moon. I was convinced we had landed on the moon until a couple weeks ago when I saw the moon images for myself on the Navy's own Clementine satellite images stored on their own website for public display.
Having been an executive level engineer for 30 years, it was a shock to find out the truth for myself. While videos, documentaries and websites can always twist information.... take a look directly at the moon itself. I highly recommend going onto the Navy's own website and take a look at their moon satellite images, particularly around the extreme lunar north and south poles. There are mining operations, buildings, craft.. you name it and they are not ours. Some of the mining pits are a couple hundred miles across and you can see the mining in process. In some cases the Navy attempted to smudge out the large buildings but you can still see some of it. Others, they completely missed. Don't take my word for it. Look for yourself. Use the regional images on the Clementine lunar browser, copy the images as a bmp format and blow them up 2x to 3x with a photo editor. Don't bother with the close up images on the Navy's site because they have deleted these files or substituted. However, you can still see the objects or interest in the area photos. (highest resolution)
After reading Phil Corso's book "The Day After Roswell" where he described Nasa's of alien bases on the moon during their first orbit to take photos, I found the Navy's satellite image website to check the lunar area's Corso described. He was absolutely correct. They are located right where he said.. and then some.
Don't take anyone's word for it. Look for yourself. It will take a few hours of scanning images for you to adjust your eyes to discerning particular objects in the rough terrain.
Don't bother with the images on Nasa's website. They did massive editing of the photos.

Charlie Rose with Dustin Hoffman (May 3, 1999)

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Charlie Rose with Dustin Hoffman (May 3, 1999)

Manufacturer: Charlie Rose
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Description

Academy Award winning actor Dustin Hoffman discusses his evolution in the movie business, his influences as an artist, the ripple effect of the school shootings in Littleton, Colorado, and A Walk on the Moon, which is the first film he has produced and not appeared in as an actor.

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Charlie Rose (August 26, 1999)

Manufacturer: Charlie Rose Inc.
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Description

A rebroadcasted hour-long interview with actor Dustin Hoffman that originally aired May 3, 1999. Following clips of his some of his most memorable performances, Hoffman talks about his growth as an actor and shares a Robert Pinsky poem which he finds inspiring. Finally, he introduces A Walk on the Moon, a film in which he does not act but has produced.

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