A Walk On The Moon is a 1999 drama film starring Diane Lane, Viggo Mortensen, Liev Schreiber and Anna Paquin. The movie, which was set against the backdrop of the Woodstock festival of 1969 and the moon landing of that year, was distributed by Miramax Films.
Pearl Kantrowitz (Lane) and her husband Marty (Schreiber) are a lower middle class Jewish couple in New York City, where Marty is a television repairman. The movie begins with Pearl and Marty...
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A Walk On The Moon is a 1999 drama film starring Diane Lane, Viggo Mortensen, Liev Schreiber and Anna Paquin. The movie, which was set against the backdrop of the Woodstock festival of 1969 and the moon landing of that year, was distributed by Miramax Films.
Pearl Kantrowitz (Lane) and her husband Marty (Schreiber) are a lower middle class Jewish couple in New York City, where Marty is a television repairman. The movie begins with Pearl and Marty taking their two children, a young boy and teenage girl Alison (Paquin) to a bungalow colony in the Catskills, where they go every year.
Pearl is becoming bored with her humdrum life. Marty is forced to work hard and can only come up on weekends. So Pearl is vulnerable when a young peddler, Walker Jerome (Mortensen), arrives in his old bus to sell blouses. He is a free-spirited hippie. They begin to become involved romantically, with the affair consummated on the night men land on the moon for the first time, July 20, 1969.
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