Oscar caliber cast doesn't live up to material
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09/27/02
Moonlight Mile (2002)
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Reviews Counted:139
Fresh:89
Rotten:50
Average Rating:6.5/10
Consensus: Though the story feels rather contrived, Moonlight Mile is redeemed by the good performances of its cast.
Runtime: 1 hr 57 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, and Susan Sarandon, MOONLIGHT MILE is a romantic drama set in 1966. Joe (Gyllenhaal) is grieving over the death of his fiancee, Diana, and is living with... [More]
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Susan Sarandon, Holly Hunter
Director: Brad Silberling
Reviews for Moonlight Mile
This bittersweet meditation on love, loss, grieving and moving on weaves two narrative threads: 1) dealing with grief, and 2) living a lie - the first more effectively than the second - with aching, affecting, illusion-shattering moments for Sarandon, Hof
09/27/02
Sensitive, human drama about grief and moving on gives two great actors a chance to soar -- and shows a fresh side to a newer talent.
09/27/02
Moonlight Mile doesn't quite go the distance but the cast is impressive and they all give life to these broken characters who are trying to make their way through this tragedy.
09/27/02
[Not] a scrupulously realistic representation of what grieving is really like… [but] an honest depiction of real emotions and relationships and personalities.
09/27/02
Dustin Hoffman, Susan Sarandon and Jake Gyllenhaal anchor a dazzling true-life comedy that might be the funniest movie about grief ever made.
09/26/02
Though its conclusion is too tidily therapeutic, and though elements of its story strain credibility, Moonlight Mile has an understated, lived-in quality and a wry, unforced sense of the absurd.
09/26/02
Top CriticWhat's on screen is too honest and from the heart to totally dismiss but too slick and contrived to completely embrace. This is a film that cares about genuine emotion but also wants to tame it, to tidy it up and keep it confined to quarters.
09/26/02
Top CriticMostly honest, this somber picture reveals itself slowly, intelligently, artfully.
09/26/02
A thoughtful, careful look at grieving.
09/26/02
Glossy, good-looking and well-produced, it affects you and even sometimes moves you, but it doesn't really convincingly connect.
09/26/02
A bittersweet drama about the limbo of grief and how truth-telling can open the door to liberation.
09/26/02
Moonlight Mile" is simply one of the best films of the year.
09/26/02
To a really shocking degree, this film has absolutely no feel for its time period.
09/26/02
Funny and telling.
09/26/02
This is an insultingly inept and artificial examination of grief and its impacts upon the relationships of the survivors.
09/26/02
In Moonlight Mile, no one gets shut out of the hug cycle.
09/26/02
Silberling belabors just about everything.
09/26/02
The journey is worth your time, especially if you have Ellen Pompeo sitting next to you for the ride.
09/26/02
Since Silberling withholds so much information in [it], he doesn’t come any closer to the truth than if he had set hankies in motion with the most melodramatic scenario possible. The film becomes a manipulation of a different, more insidious sort.
09/26/02
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