
A fifteen year marriage dissolves, leaving both the husband and wife, and their four children, devastated. He's preoccupied with a career and a mistress, she with a career and caring for four young children. While they attempt to go their separate ways, jealousy and bitterness reconnect them.... (Full plot summary below)
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A fifteen year marriage dissolves, leaving both the husband and wife, and their four children, devastated. He's preoccupied with a career and a mistress, she with a career and caring for four young children. While they attempt to go their separate ways, jealousy and bitterness reconnect them.
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| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertDespite its flaws, despite its gaps, despite two key scenes that are dreadfully wrong, Shoot the Moon contains a raw emotional power of the sort we rarely see in domestic dramas. |
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeNot Parker's best, but done with uncanny precision. |
| Washington PostGary ArnoldEven Parker's direction, with its unerring sense of pace, cannot disguise an awkwardly episodic narrative which just cannot find a sense of an ending. |
| Slant MagazineDan CallahanParker and Goldman seem to want this battling couple to represent a sort of romantic '60s point of view, and they show up the younger lovers as shallow, '70s-style hedonists. |
| Video-Reviewmaster.comSteve CrumHigh drama, albeit depressing, with Keaton and Finney in strong leads. |
| Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittAt its best, Shoot the Moon is as spare and as sharp in its detail as fine prose and as continuously surprising. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzAdds nothing much to the genre of family dramas. |
| Boston GlobeBruce McCabeDivorce and separation are subjects too important to be treated in the bizarre way Alan Parker treats them in Shoot the Moon which is a film with lots of emotion but no heart. |
| Washington PostJudith MartinFinney and Keaton each have their heavy dramatic moments, but there is nothing in writer Bo Goldman's script that hasn't been seen and heard in a thousand other films. |
| User ReviewKayla EThe best movie ever. Life, love, loss. But strength throughout. |