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  • 1982
  • R
  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
  • 2 h 4 m
  • 1982
  • R
  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
  • 2 h 4 m

Summary 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.

Directed By: Alan Parker

Written By: Bo Goldman

  • 1982
  • R
  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
  • 2 h 4 m
  • 1982
  • R
  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
  • 2 h 4 m

Shoot the Moon

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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Summary 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.

Directed By: Alan Parker

Written By: Bo Goldman

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
68
55% Positive
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45% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
68
55% Positive
6 Reviews
45% Mixed
5 Reviews
0% Negative
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88
Despite 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.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
80
This unapologetically grown-up movie about separating is perhaps the most revealing American movie of its era. Though the director, Alan Parker, doesn't do anything innovative in technique, it's a modern movie in terms of its consciousness.
By Pauline Kael FULL REVIEW
80
Shoot the Moon leaves you with more than fresh respect for Parker and Keaton. It also suggests that American family life has just begun to be depicted with true candor and sensitivity on the contemporary screen. [19 Feb 1982, p.D1]
By Gary Arnold FULL REVIEW
63
Shoot the Moon is Kramer vs. Kramer without the sentiment, a hard view of post-marital strife in Marin County, Calif. [11 Jan 1982]
By Bob Thomas FULL REVIEW
50
The non-judgmental state, in which the wrecking of a family is treated like a natural disaster for which there is no human responsibity or possiblity of control, is also true to the spirit of the society the film depicts. But it makes the film, like the marriage itself, seem irritatingly thoughtless. [19 Feb 1982, p.4]
By Judith Martin FULL REVIEW
50
Even Parker's direction, with its unerring sense of pace, cannot disguise an awkwardly episodic narrative which just cannot find a sense of an ending.
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40
Finney 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.
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Production Company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), SLM Production Group
Release Date Feb 19, 1982
Duration 2 h 4 m
Rating R
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Tagline There's one thing about marriage that hasn't changed . . . The way you hurt when it begins to fall apart.
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Awards

Golden Globes, USA
• 2 Nominations
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Writers Guild of America, USA
• 1 Nomination

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