A Walk on the Moon [DVD]

good movie

It was very late Saturday night, I happened to be home alone and very tired, and I wasn't at all sure that I would want to see this movie enough to remain awake past the opening few minutes. Funny, though, I don't quite know from exactly where I got my second wind (AND IN SPITE OF MYSELF). I've been on both sides of the main guy parts of this movie at different points in my life, and I've got to tell you that THIS FLICK HITS HOME!!! Even the atmosphere of the wife on vacation in the mountains with the kids, while the husband has to get back to the city to work-- leaving the wife just lonely and complaining enough to feel vulnerable-- was a reality I experienced in real life, and re-experienced just as realistically while watching this movie. The negative reviews threw me off completely--as a movie lover, as a man with a reasonably rich sexual history to look back on, and as a clinician helping others through their own times of crisis (or LACK OF CRISIS when they should be feeling themselves in one). In both real-life "perpetrator" and "victim" roles, I was discovering the broader reaches of joy. I also remember undergoing the encounter with the other man, or with the man when I was the other man. I remember how hard I struggled for that same sort of respectfulness with which the characters in this movie tried desperately to reach out to each other, and how hard it was to live up to it while I was in such pain . . . or having caused such pain. From having been on both sides I learned: (1) that the "other man" is never victorious over the man, because the "other man" usually represents only the exclusive freedom of indulged fantasy for the woman; and (2) that the "victim" has to come to the decision to compete with the other man for his woman's affections as a lover, not as a punitive moralistic whiner. The lover in this movie seems to have known the first part from the git-go; the husband, on the other hand, took a while (and some memory-jogging help from a microscope his wife sent him) to warm up to that second point. Taming jealousy (the green eyed monster) turns out to be more a matter of taming one's own, as well as everybody else's, INSECURITY. Even when it didn't hurt, both sides of the experience were nevertheless scary to go through--and under both circumstances, it was ridden with guilt and uncertainty about where ultimately this would all be going. I just saw the film for the first time on Netflix, and I have promptly bought six copies for me and to share. While over half the marriages end in divorce, Americans remain a determinedly marrying and RE-marrying people, leaving a great many of us to make our way in blended family situations. These days, couples are bombarded with the hollow promises of fantasy entertainment garnered from cheap TV melodramas, which invariably leave them hard up to distinguish reality from common yearning. Just saw on WebMD advice delivered by a supposed sexuality expert about marriage--5 ways to keep sensuality strong--and it seemed like she was cooking Hamburger Helper (in the end, offering more explanations for why we shouldn't expect mutual climax than how to reach it with each other). There is a vast mystery in love, which this movie seems to capture (without ever trying to bring it all down to some sort of stupid easy solution by the time the credits start rolling). In actual point of fact, there are as many different types of love as the Eskimos have words for snow, but we nevertheless think about it as only a unidimensional topic: and that's also how we tend to talk about it, or (worst of all) do it. It is ultimately more art than science, and one can only be taught to take the time to explore and connect with one's own inner vision for how to go about it. That is the gift we offer to the other party in any genuinely honest embrace, and thus the conversation is on (hopefully in responsively negotiated back and forth fashion). I loved the movie's keen sense of proportions: the wife achieved intense frolicking with her lover, but we leave the husband and wife back together having barely achieved clumsily dancing the twist with one another--which is exactly how new beginning proceed (when we first meet our other, or when we become REacquainted with him or her). And all this was done so tastefully in the movie, which provides role models which are sure to keep couples caught in similar dilemmas from having to seek feeling excitedly XXX "dirty" in order to get it on. Hard to believe, but cynical old Hollywood SOMETIMES DOES GET IT RIGHT!!! Cheap-shots-from-left-field/low-ball criticisms will only set the moguls back on their heels, and back to offering us Pabulum and Silly-Putty versions of life. When a cultural objet-d'art like this comes along, give it it's due, or shut up and get out of the way. If we fail to exercise the discipline and generosity to do this, remember that audiences invariably get the crap they deserve. I highly recommend this film, for its near-documentary verite as well as for its most gratifying savoir faire.

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First, let me say I really like this movie, even with its flaws. I do recommend finding and reading the deleted scenes (they have yet to be released in video form and I would love to see a Director’s Cut with them added). Almost all the scenes were of the Blouse Man and the cuts were awful because those scenes paint a much deeper picture of both Walker and Pearl. Second, and the reason why I only give it four stars is because the story fails to find the equilibrium necessary in good stories. If the story were to focus on the husband, Marty, as the protagonist the appropriate title would be “The Emasculation of Marty”. From the husband’s viewpoint, Pearl is awash in self-pity and goes to great lengths to punish her husband over his failure to meet her every need. In two of the main scenes, she goes to the Blouse Man only after Marty fails, through no fault of his, to be where she wants, when she wants. The scene where Marty enters his bungalow to find the Blouse Man sitting in his chair with his family is especially painful. It is like a Norman Rockwell painting with the husband whited out and replaced with a stranger. Moreover, this occurs less than twenty-four hours after Marty confronted Pearl over the affair. All of Pearl’s loving looks are reserved for the Blouse Man. Not once, in the entire movie does Pearl ever tell her husband that she loves him; indeed, it is obvious that she does not really. She is only back home for the kids. That Marty could forgive her so quickly and with so little remorse on her part is where the imbalance lies. Marty is a saint, the Blouse man is freedom symbolized, but Pearl, despite being portrayed brilliantly by Diane Lane, is petty and selfish. This despite the presence of her mother-in-law who as a single mother represents Pearl’s future if Marty dumps her.

This is definitely one of my favorite movies. It has everything... Humor, romance, great performances, great music... Part of me wished that Pearl could have gone off with the blouse man, but that would have ruined the most important part of her life: her family. Sometimes, things don't work out the way we want them to and our lives are set for us early. Sigh. My only criticism, and it's a small one... Whoever wrote the script must have been a real city person. Uh-hummm, --- wasps do not have stingers. Bees have stingers. Wasps take a little bite out of you and leave their venom. You can swell up to about the size of a quarter with a wound that looks like a pink hill with a red dot in the center of it, not a huge red and black boo-boo like is shown in the movie. Yes, Adolph's meat tenderizer will help, so will Champo-phenique or a paste made of ice water and baking soda or a warm oatmeal bath. And, in the first shot of Daniel throwing stones at the wasp nest there is no nest there. Oh, well...

Great movie absolutely enjoyed it definitely buy again if necessary hopefully I don't have to replace this one but if I have to replace it I would definitely buy it again I highly recommend it

My husband and I own this movie and think it's fabulous on every level. We've watched it many times since it was first released. Diane Lane and Liev Schrieber are both marvelous actors and are able to convey so much about their emotions with small moments. Tovah Feldshuh, as the wise mother-in-law, is perfect. The changing times are believably portrayed in this story about a couple who married young in a different time and now find their world changing. (I was 18 at the time of the moon landing and Woodstock so witnessed the era firsthand.) One of the things that is so good about this movie is that all the characters are good, well-intentioned people - there is no "bad" guy here, even the gorgeous "blouse man," played by Viggo Mortensen, is a decent guy. I love it that both Pearl and Marty, after they realize some new things about each other, are willing to try and find their way back to each other in this new world. The final scene of them dancing on the porch couldn't be better. Despite the fact that three years after this movie, Diane Lane was in "Unfaithful," they are very different movies and "A Walk on the Moon" is superior because it has so much heart. I can very strongly recommend this movie.

This movie worked for me on many levels. It has a story that is not simplistic or overwrought but has the feel of looking back and inward. Walk on the moon as a title works because the nation was held in wonder mirroring the way both Pearl and her 14 year old daughter are at the way their life is turning. It is a pivotal point for the main characters in this gentle movie. The main review states "Although its tale of marital crisis unfolds a bit too cleanly..." You know, I don't find it difficult to believe that there are some people left in America that are able to go beyond a crisis and find a way to reach out and hold on....that not everyone thinks a talk show or reality show way of handling life is the only way. I will admit this is a bit of a feel good movie that allows us to walk on the wildside and still have the security of home and hearth. I loved this movies music and the 60's theme really worked for me. I sure hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Voila l'un des plus beau film de Diane Lane avec " Infidéle" .Enfin un premier rôle qui met en valeur tout le talent de cette merveilleuse actrice américaine.L'histoire d'une mère de famille qui pendant les vacances d'été du mois de juillet 1969 , trop souvent délaissé par son mari submergé de travail , trouve le réconfort et l'amour auprès d'un vendeur ambulant joué par Viggo Mortensen .Elle devra faire un choix entre son mari et sa vie de famille ou son nouvel amour.Tout le film se déroule pendant la période hippies,au moment méme ou le premier homme a marché sur la lune en juillet 69.Pas de version française, ni sous titres français.

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I'd seen this about 3 years after it first came out. It was one of those insomniacs movies, on TV at about 2 in the morning and I was working with the TV playing in the background when the film started. It captured my attention, not because of any dramatic action scenes, but because of the subtleness of the story, and it is definitely not the usual genre of movie I go for. The story starts with the Kantrowitz family packing the car and heading for a Butlins-style holiday camp in the summer of 1969. It is set over the time of the July 4th celebrations, the Moon Landing, and Woodstock. Marty (Liev Schreiber - Defiance , Sum Of All Fears , Salt and X-Men Origins: Wolverine ) is a good man doing his best to provide for his family and who must travel back to New York during the week for his job as a TV repair man while his family stay at the holiday camp, only returning at the weekend (if his boss permits). Alison (Anna Paquin - The Piano , X-Men 1-3 and True Blood ) is the rebellious daughter, in her teens and finding boys for the first time. Tovah Feldshuh takes the role of Marty's mother, and is somewhat the stereotypical Jewish matriarch of the family. Pearl (Diane Lane - The Perfect Storm ) is Marty's restless wife, who is looking back at her life and wondering what's come of it. Pearl had to marry Marty when she found she was knocked up after "just one time". Young son Danny (Bobby Boriello) goes almost unnoticed in the turmoil of the family life. Trouble starts when the new "Blouse man" Walker Jerome (Viggo Mortensen - The Lord of the Rings ) arrives and is friendly, unpretentious, charming and quietly spoken. Walker is not a fly-by-night heartbreaker. When Marty is stuck in the New York repair shop Diane falls into the arms of the gentle salesman. This is, however, more than just a film about a frustrated woman finding "love" with another man; it is about how her actions affect those around her. It is about dreams and realising that you are not the only one to have to give ideals and dreams up when you are in a relationship or have a family - something which Pearl is oblivious to until Marty's mother points out that her son had dreams to be more than a TV repairman. Pearl must decide if this is just a summer holiday fling; if she should stick with Marty or leave him and move in with the "Blouse man" breaking up her family in the process; and if she decides it's Marty what would happen if he found out, would he stick by her? The problem is that both men are, in their own way, good men, kind and gentle, and it is think likeable aspect of Marty and Walker that makes her decision more than a "true love wins in the end" story. It is a feel good film that leaves you thinking. The star is Diane Lane who puts in a credible performance as does Viggo Mortensen, but the stand out performance is Liev Schreiber. Mr Schreiber manages to have some of the most powerful and heartbreaking scenes using his talent to make Marty such an empathetic, quiet and likeable man. The scene with his daughter is a real tear-jerker moment. The Extra (if you can call it that) consists of "Film Recommendations"! In a strange way it is good to see that the Americans can suffer from the same lack of consideration as we do with many of the releases in this country. The movie comes with English soundtrack and English subtitles only. If you are purchasing this Region 1 DVD then you will need a compatible (or a universal) player as it is region locked. If you do have a DVD player that can play region 1 or you can get hold of a region 2 disc then this film is a cracker when you are looking for something with a story.

Adore this film! Diane Lane at her best as a an unfulfilled housewife in the sixties. A true coming of age film about self discovery and the consequences of choices made. Viggo Mortensen is sexy as hell!

ダイアン・レインが好きで、この度、彼女の出演作品をDVDまたはブルーレイで探していたのですが、この作品がなかなか見つからなくて・・・。 また見つかっても、中古の割には結構良いお値段だったりと・・・（T_T） やっと見つけ、価格も良心的でしたので、こちらで即購入させて頂きました♪ 盤面も綺麗だったので良い買い物が出来ました。 映画そのものの内容は賛否両論かもしれませんが、私はノスタルジック風で好きです(*^_^*)