SummaryAn emotional tale of disarming honesty and unexpected humor...a story about waking up to life, letting go, and discovering that love comes in the most unexpected circumstances. (Touchstone Pictures)
Directed By:Brad Silberling
Written By:Brad Silberling
Moonlight Mile
Metascore
Mixed or Average
59
User score
Generally Favorable
7.5
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
59
53% Positive
18 Reviews
18 Reviews
38% Mixed
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
9% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
100
Not many movies know that truth. Moonlight Mile is based on it.
75
Understands that extreme feelings bring out weird reactions. Tension and sadness will occasionally be interrupted by humor -- even slapstick.
70
Though its conclusion is too tidily therapeutic, and though elements of its story strain credibility, Moonlight Mile has an understated, lived-in quality and a wry, unforced sense of the absurd.
63
Inside Moonlight Mile, an honest and heartbreakingly true movie is struggling to get out.
60
The film takes an incredibly wrong turn when it shifts to the courtroom trial -- It all but kills any goodwill Silberling has engendered up to this point.
50
Eloquent acting -- in fits and starts -- can't make up for the movie's glib, off-putting calculations.
10
I'm at a loss to account for how OFF this film is -- how a movie can seem so conscientiously earnest yet so creepily exploitive. It's like a Christmas stocking over a crematory.
User score
Generally Favorable
7.5
73% Positive
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
27% Mixed
4 Ratings
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0% Negative
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Jul 13, 2023
8
With this kind of plot, it is commendable that the film doesn’t step into melodrama territory. Its screenplay by Brad Silberling has the right kind of intensity and insight. The dialogue here makes you think, and the theme is delivered without feeling forced.
Production Company:
- Touchstone Pictures
- Hyde Park Entertainment
- Reveal Entertainment
- Gran Via Productions
- Punch Productions
- Epsilon Motion Pictures
Release Date:Sep 27, 2002
Duration:1 h 57 m
Rating:PG-13
Tagline:In life and love, expect the unexpected.
Awards
AARP Movies for Grownups Awards
• 3 Nominations
Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards
• 2 Nominations
Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
