A Walk on the Moon (1999)

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Rating: R

Release Date: Mar 26, 1999

Running Time: 107 mins. (V)

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Diane Lane, Liev Schreiber, Anna Paquin, Tovah Feldshuh, Viggo Mortensen, Stewart Bick, Jess Platt, Bobby Borriello, Star Jasper, Ellen David

director: Tony Goldwyn

Set in Woodstock, the summer of 1969, a frustrated, beautiful young Brooklyn housewife, Pearl Kantrowitz, spends her summer in the Catskills. Her world is turned around when she has an affair with a free-wheeling traveling salesman, Walker Jerome--a charming and quietly seductive hippie. Pearl cannot help herself even as she begins to realize the consequences of her intense attraction. Pearl is having the time of her life--and she is finally becoming the person she always wanted to be. But when her foray to the Woodstock Festival in the arms of Walker Jerome results in a shattering family revelation, she must reconcile her old life with her new desires and dreams.

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"A Walk on the Moon" follows the same pattern as Forces of Nature by matching up a square with a free spirit, but this time the relationship rings true. It's the summer of 1969: the time of the Apollo moonwalk, political protests, and revolutions in sex, drugs and rock & roll that would peak at Woodstock. Pearl Kantrowitz (Diane Lane), a Jewish housewife and mother vacationing with her family at a bungalow in upstate New York, feels frustratingly remote from the action. Pearl was a teenager,…