Synopsis
As he copes with the death of his fiancee along with her parents, a young man must figure out what he wants out of life.
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Cast
- Dustin HoffmanBen Floss
- Susan SarandonJojo Floss
- Jake GyllenhaalJoe Nast
- Alexia LandeauCheryl
- Ellen PompeoBertie Knox
- Richard MessingRabbi
- Lev FriedmanCantor
- Bob ClendeninServer #1
- Jim FyfeServer #2
- Mary Ellen TrainorMrs. Meyerson
Recommendations
- 75
Boston Globe
The first half of Moonlight Mile feels like the runaway trailer for a movie that can't wait to jerk your tears. But to quote Joe in a moment of epiphany, there's a ''truth enema'' out there, and, boy, it really brings this movie around. - 67
Austin Chronicle
An admirable effort, but too many words, words, and more words, and not enough of the ache of that half-smile. - 63
Charlotte Observer
Inside Moonlight Mile, an honest and heartbreakingly true movie is struggling to get out. - 60
New Times (L.A.)
The film takes an incredibly wrong turn when it shifts to the courtroom trial -- It all but kills any goodwill Silberling has engendered up to this point. - 58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
In his determination to lighten the heavy subject matter, Silberling also, to a certain extent, trivializes the movie with too many nervous gags and pratfalls: to the point where his heartfelt drama comes perilously close to tasteless comedy. - 58
Entertainment Weekly
In ''Ordinary People,'' at least one character -- Mary Tyler Moore's -- had to fall so that the others could survive. In Moonlight Mile, no one gets shut out of the hug cycle. - 50
Baltimore Sun
Moonlight Mile leavens the mood occasionally, but it cheapens things by insisting that everybody onscreen and in the audience leavethe theater smiling. - 50
Miami Herald
A movie about grief for people who don't want to be upset too badly. It's a half-a-hankie tearjerker, a meek, polite weepie.
