#MAN ON THE MOON PICTURES LAWN CHAIR MOVIE#

Of course everyone experiments with the forbidden, even the more mature among us, and Diane Lane's character shouldn't necessarily be condemned on that account. (Actually, in both films, he's schtupping somebody else's wife.) Here he walks around with fashionably long - this is 1969 - fashionably long hair, Gary Cooperishly strong and self contained, his shirt always open down the front so we can see his well-tanned plaque-like pectorals, something I imagine is designed to brighten the eyes and quicken the breath of the women in the audience although it doesn't do a thing for me. In both films that I've seen him in, he's woodenly handsome, quietly self confident, and masculine. Viggo Mortenson I can't quite understand. Tovah Feldshuh as Bubba is bang on but, when you come to think of it, should keep her nose out of her son's business. Their young girl, Anna Paquin, who was the even younger daughter in 'The Good-Bye Girl,' is winsome and nice, and not a bad actress. Schreiber, as her square but good-humored husband, is suitably crew-cut and satisfied with his domestic life. No-longer-quite-young wife is vaguely bored with husband and domestic life, is beginning to experience a rise is blood testosterone levels, seeks out adventures with Mellors the gardener - I mean Walker the traveling salesman. Lane's role is so thoroughly sketched out that we can easily visualize it in the treatment. Diane Lane is no longer an adolescent cutie pie, and passes well for Rose Kantrowitz spending a summer with the kids at a camp in the Catskills. It's just that it strikes me as the sort of romantic drama one might find on afternoon TV. There's nothing particularly wrong with it. It's a little hard to figure out why this story was filmed. The smaller family drama is so much more superior anyways. I would have preferred to move away from Woodstock and not have the grand expectations.

#MAN ON THE MOON PICTURES LAWN CHAIR MOVIE#

Also a movie with Woodstock should have more music in it. This is more of an actors movie and a romance novel. It's just missing a real vision from the leader in the director's chair. It's first time directing for actor Tony Goldwyn. Diane Lane is a slightly better cheating wife in 'Unfaithful'. Pearl falls for the mysterious salesman and starts an affair. Walker Jerome (Viggo Mortensen) is a traveling salesman selling clothes. Daughter Alison (Anna Paquin) is a rebellious teen making a new friend with Myra Naidell (Lisa Jakub). Mother Pearl (Diane Lane) feels stymied by a static life. The father Marty (Liev Schreiber) has to go back to repair TVs in time for the broadcast of the moon landing. The Kantrowitz Jewish family is vacationing in a holiday camp not far from Woodstock.

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