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Cast
- Albert FinneyGeorge Dunlap
- Diane KeatonFaith Dunlap
- Karen AllenSandy
- Peter WellerFrank Henderson
- Dana HillSherry Dunlap
- Viveka DavisJill Dunlap
- Tracey GoldMarianne Dunlap
- Tina YothersMolly Dunlap
- George MurdockFrench DeVoe
- O-Lan JonesCountergirl
Recommendations
- 88
Chicago Sun-Times
Despite its flaws, despite its gaps, despite two key scenes that are dreadfully wrong, Shoot the Moon contains a raw emotional power of the sort we rarely see in domestic dramas. - 83
Christian Science Monitor
Shoot the Moon doesn't reach the eccentric emotional heights of John Cassavetes's A Woman Under the Influence, perhaps the best family drama ever made. But flaws and all, it towers over most of the kiddie movies that have dominated the cinema scene for too long. It will be taken very seriously for a very long time. [28 Jan 1982, p.18] - 80
The New York Times
At its best, Shoot the Moon is as spare and as sharp in its detail as fine prose and as continuously surprising. - 80
Washington Post
Shoot the Moon leaves you with more than fresh respect for Parker and Keaton. It also suggests that American family life has just begun to be depicted with true candor and sensitivity on the contemporary screen. [19 Feb 1982, p.D1] - 63
The Associated Press
Shoot the Moon is Kramer vs. Kramer without the sentiment, a hard view of post-marital strife in Marin County, Calif. [11 Jan 1982] - 60
Newsweek
It's no soap opera: it's serious, unsentimental and novelistic in its preference for anecdotal detail over melodramatic plotting and filled with fresh, acute and moving moments. Shoot the Moon can also boast of excellent performances and Parker's most controlled direction to date. Yet these many virtues don't add up to a completely satisfying film. [25 Jan 1982, p.75] - 50
Time Out
Even Parker's direction, with its unerring sense of pace, cannot disguise an awkwardly episodic narrative which just cannot find a sense of an ending. - 50
Washington Post
The non-judgmental state, in which the wrecking of a family is treated like a natural disaster for which there is no human responsibity or possiblity of control, is also true to the spirit of the society the film depicts. But it makes the film, like the marriage itself, seem irritatingly thoughtless. [19 Feb 1982, p.4]
