A Walk on the Moon has good intentions, really it does, but its charged atmosphere of self-discovery eventually gives way to standard melodrama that more or less sinks it like the Titanic. But it's a fun Miramax ride while it lasts, and Diane Lane, Anna Paquin, Viggo "Master of Evil" Mortensen and Liev Schreiber make us feel their respective pain like pros.
The film takes place at a Jewish resort camp during the summer of 1969. (This setting allows Julie "Marge" Kavner to make some hilarious P.A. announcements: "The kanish man is on the premises.") There, a fairly joyless lower-middle class family wiles away their days and nights while the overworked husband (Schreiber) has to scurry back to town.
The matriarch (Lane, a damn sexy matriarch), we learn, married young after becoming pregnant, and she's never really known the joys of young adulthood. No, she skipped straight to the responsibilities of parenthood. Well, the blouse man (Mortensen) is about to change that. The two have an immediate onscreen chemistry, and with Liev back in town, there's not much anyone can do to stop it.
Meanwhile, Paquin is coming of age in the more traditional sense. (Let's just say there's a My Girl moment of menarche.) She meets a nice Jewish boy and sneaks off with him, provoking some interesting mother-daughter parallels of hypocrisy. The movie also uses two historical backdrops -- the moon landing and Woodstock -- to underscore the romance subplots.
Like I said, it all works in a rather sublime sort of way until A Walk on the Moon runs out of plot and has to begin coasting on its extended denouement to pad out its running time. That's when you realize there wasn't really enough material to construct a full movie from. But it's well-intentioned and never unpleasant, and that counts for something.
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