Alicia I love this movie so much

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Eris Razak It was the first time I saw Reese Witherspoon's performance.. and bang!!! It was amazing! And I knew It, that she'd be a big star someday.. well now, with an Oscar in her hand... I guess my guts were right.. And about this movie.. LOVE it !!! I even bought the laser disc version of it (dvds weren't there yet). Later that i knew, that this movie was the first movie of Reese Witherspoon too. Not many actors would give such a golden performance in their first time.So I got nothing more to say except that the story, the actors' performances and the soundtracks, they're all g.r.e.a.t !Let's sing.. "I would spend my whole life through, loving you, just loving you....."

Ben Larson The film debut of 14-year-old Reese Witherspoon. Certainly the best young actress of that time. She would go on to win an Oscar some 15 years later with Walk the Line.I can't get over how young Sam Waterson (Law & Order) looks. He and Tess Harper are the parents of teenage girls. He is strict, but loving. They really seem to be real parents of teens. He comes through at the right time when things look hopeless.Dani (Witherspoon) has a crush on Court (Jason London). Coming of age comes early in Louisiana. Unfortunately, Court hasn't met her older sister Maureen (Emily Warfield).Things never leave the realm of the believable, and this was a beautiful story accompanied by a great music by Elvis and The Platters.

Howard Schumann An exquisite tone poem of first love and its many complications, The Man in the Moon is a portrait of the relationship between Dani, a 14-year-old Reece Witherspoon, and 17-year-old Court Foster (Jason London). It is as true to life as any young relationship I've ever seen on screen, full of both immeasurable joy and unspeakable sadness, the stuff of life.Dani and her sister Maureen (Emily Warfield), a few years older, are being raised on an isolated farm in the 1950s in rural Louisiana by their caring but demanding parents played by father Sam Waterston and Tess Harper, the girls mother who is the ninth month of pregnancy. The sisters, who are close and share each other's secrets, both fall in love with Court and it is the younger sister who feels the pain. When an unforeseen event occurs, however, there is enough hurt to go around for a long time before the thought of forgiveness can even be entertained. The Man in the Moon is a very restrained film, yet its simple beauty will always hold a special place for me.

claytonchurch1 I like romances. Here's what I liked: the scenery (I got the "feel" of living in rural Louisiana, and that was great); and Matt's good, fatherly words to Dani on the boat were worth the movie. Here's where the movie failed me. Though I love Sam Waterston, I'm a northerner who's now lived in the South for 14 years, and see here and elsewhere that when northerners (Sam's from Boston) try to play Southerners, they get so much wrong, which Sam does. I like his fatherly role, but his style, mannerisms, and accent are just out of place as a Louisiana dad. If I were a Southerner, I'd feel very poorly represented. Sometimes the writing was just bad, with characters saying things way too "philosophy of life-ish." They were little monologues that were out of place. Lastly, with the writing, characters are sometimes having all this emotion one way or the other when "all that" wouldn't be possible to have built up in the character in the short time frame that the storyline proposes. There's betrayal in the movie that is simply accepted by all the characters (but one), so the person wronged is never given any sense of consolation or true apology. That left me wanting. Maureen's character was flat--in the end, I needed some kind of character growth (realizations) in her that the writer(s) never delivered. That was disappointing.