Rating: R
Genre:
Romance
Theatrical Release: 03/26/1999(USA)
Release Date: 10/12/1999
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 107 Minutes
Flags: Nudity, Profanity, Substance Abuse (Alcohol, Drugs), Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: Miramax
The personal turning points of a family in crisis are portrayed against the backdrop of one of America's most tumultuous summers in this drama. In 1969, Pearl Kantrowitz (
Diane Lane) is spending the summer at a resort in the Catskills. Married to TV repairman Marty (
Liev Schreiber) and the mother of two children, respectably middle-class Pearl feels trapped by domestic life and inwardly lusts after a traveling salesman named Walker (
Viggo Mortensen). When Marty is called back to the city one weekend, Pearl impulsively arranges to meet Walker at a music festival going on in nearby Bethel, New York -- The Woodstock Music and Art Fair. However, Pearl doesn't realize that her teenage daughter Alison (
Anna Paquin) has secret plans of her own, and when mother and daughter meet in the midst of hippiedoms's most celebrated moment, both have a lot of explaining to do, to each other and to Marty.
A Walk On The Moon was produced in part by
Dustin Hoffman, and premiered at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
