Moonlight Mile DVD Review

"MOONLIGHT MILE" reviews

DVD

MOONLIGHT MILE

Author

anonymous

Date reviewed

2005-10-26 11:18:14

Provider

MRIB

DVD Review

Ben (Dustin Hoffman) and JoJo Floss (Susan Sarandon) have tragically lost their daughter. Finding coping difficult, they take her fiancé Joe Nast (Jake Gyllenhaal) deep into their lives, treating him like the son-in-law he was going to be. But Jake harbours a secret, unsure if revealing it to the Flosses would be prudent during this difficult time in the couple's lives; believing that deception just might be more honest than the truth.

Brad Silberling's (Casper, City of Angels ) film is compelling if nothing else. Life is full of loss and regret, and the different ways that people deal with it all is an integral part of their humanity. Loosely based on the director's own experiences – his fiancée My Sister Sam actress Rebecca Schaeffer was brutally murdered by a stalker in 1989 – Moonlight Mile is a film intent on examining the grieving process in all its surreal entirety. For every tear there is a laugh, every frown a smile, and the film covers these moments with a naturalistic and even-handed deftness.

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