Rating: PG13
Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 03/11/2003
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 117 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Walt Disney Video
Frequent television director
Brad Silberling directs the
romantic drama Moonlight Mile. Set in a Massachusetts town in the early '70s,
Joe Nast (
Jake Gyllenhaal) is distraught after the death of his fiancée. He moves in with her parents,
Ben (
Dustin Hoffman) and
JoJo (
Susan Sarandon), while trying to sort out all of the legal troubles and painful details of the wedding cancellations. While trying to locate the wedding invitations in the mail,
Joe meets
Bertie (
Ellen Pompeo), whose boyfriend has been MIA in Vietnam. Despite his growing relationship with his late fiancée's parents,
Joe begins to foster a romance with
Bertie. Also starring
Dabney Coleman and
Holly Hunter.
Moonlight Mile is based on
Brad Silberling's real-life situation following the murder of his TV-star girlfriend
Rebecca Schaeffer.
~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide