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However, if you haven't seen a movie in a very long time and are re-discovering it then exceptions may be made. Keeping this sub's special character means sharing the experience of seeing a movie the first time.Only post movies that you have seen for the FIRST time. Check if your movie has already been posted before submitting.Ħ.Check if your movie has already been posted before submitting. You can make your title whatever you want, as long as it contains a) the name of the movie you watched b) the year it was released.ĥ. Reese Witherspoon and Jason London move in to kiss in a scene from the film The Man In The Moon, 1991.Put your movie name and year in the title. Tag your posts as "SPOILER" if your movie contains a "surprise ending," plot twist, etc.Ĥ.Movies from 2010, to be clear, are allowed, however, but anything from 2011, 2012, etc. Only post movies that came out 10 or more years ago.Racism, sexism, inciting violence, personal attacks, hate speech, etc.Remember that the whole point of the sub is to have a conversation, so don't forget to reply to the commenters! Rules **** of 4 stars.IWAOM is a place to talk about old movies you watched for the first time as if they just came out. Reese Witherspoon plays the 14 year old who while swimming in a pond, meets a 17 year old boy who just lost his Dad to an accident.

They live in the country with their Dad, pregnant Mom and little sister. A boy comes between them and a tragedy occurs. Witherspoon played 14-year-old Dani, a Louisiana girl whose world opens to up to the pleasures and heartbreaks of adolescence one summer in the 1950s. This movie is the story of two sisters who love each other. This is one of the very best films of 1991. One movie that is great to watch every summer is 'Man in the Moon,' Reese Witherspoon's 1991 film debt. Released September 30th, 1991, The Man in the Moon stars Reese Witherspoon, Sam Waterston, Tess Harper, Gail Strickland The PG-13 movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 39 min, and received a user. To date, this is Robert Mulligan's last film. There are feelings to sort out, lessons to learn, and truths to face in this sweet-natured film that packs an emotional wallop. Gail Strickland is good also as the boy's mother. Tess Harper and Sam Waterston play the girls' parents with dead aim accuracy for 1957, caring, strict, and emotionally simple. The beautiful cinematography is by famed horror director Freddie Francis, who was in his 70's when this was shot. The music is wonderfully simple, accentuating the tone and mood from scene to scene, but never becoming intrusive. The film centers around 13-year-old Dani (Reese Witherspoon) who falls in love with her 17-year-old neighbor Court (Jason London) but soon he finds himself. Kudos to the autobiographical screenplay from Jenny Wingfield this is one of the very few films about young love that is honest and consistent in tone without being emotionally dishonest or sensationalist. Man in the Moon, The (1991) (out of 4) Set during 1957, this tender coming-of-age movie is without question one of the best of its kind due to some wonderful direction and performances. The film accurately depicts each adolescent's thoughts or feelings in regard to love with heartfelt sensitivity, never crossing over into maudlin excess even once. Warfield and London are both equally good as well. Reese Witherspoon is astonishingly good in her film debut, displaying every emotion that a 14 year old girl feels in experiencing young love and hurt, never striking a false note.

Here he directs newcomers in the principal roles: Reese Witherspoon, in her film debut, as the 14 year old girl Emily Warfield, as the older sister Jason London, as Court, the 17 year old boy. Mulligan is famous for previously directing Summer of '42 in 1971 and To Kill A Mockingbird in 1962, two giants of the coming of age genre.

That is the simple premise of this beautiful, poetic coming of age film from Director Robert Mulligan. Reviewed by CitizenCaine 10 /10 Beautiful Coming Of Age FilmĪ 14 year old girl develops her first serious crush on the 17 year old boy that lives near by, while simultaneously trying to overcome her feelings of inadequacy in comparison to her older sister.
