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Holly Hunter is the fifth major player, as the lawyer who is handling the case against Diana's killer. She is so vulnerable in this movie, so sweet as she senses Joe's pain and wants to help him. She is frightened by her own power to attract, especially since she wants to attract even while she tells herself she doesn't.
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She knows she is faithful to her old boyfriend. Pompeo, a newcomer, plays Bertie with a kind of scary charisma that cannot be written, only felt. She intuits that Joe is dealing not only with the loss of Diana's life but with the loss of something else. The deepest conversation JoJo has with Joe ("Isn't it funny, that we have the same name?") is about as well done as such a scene can be. Sarandon's JoJo is tart, with a verbal wit to protect her and a jaundiced view of her husband's prospects. Ben's desire to share his dream with his surrogate son, Joe, also has echoes from the Arthur Miller tragedy. This will be his big killing, the deal that caps his career, even though we can see in the eyes of the local rich man ( Dabney Coleman) that Ben is too small to land this fish.
#MOONLIGHT MILE MOVIE#
The movie provides key scenes for all of the characters, in conversation and in monologue, so that it is not only about Joe's grieving process but about all four, who have lost different things in different ways.Īnyone regarding the Hoffman character will note that his name is Benjamin and remember Hoffman's most famous character, in " The Graduate." But Joe is the Benjamin of this film, and Hoffman's older man has more in common with another of his famous roles: Willy Loman, the hero of "Death of a Salesman." Ben occupies a low-rent storefront office on Main Street in Cape Anne, Mass., but dreams of putting together a group of properties and bringing in a superstore like Kmart. Ben and JoJo are not simply a backdrop to a romance involving Joe and Bertie.
#MOONLIGHT MILE FULL#
Silberling's screenplay pays full attention to all of the characters.
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While it is possible that they will mend each other's hearts by falling in love, the movie doesn't simple-mindedly pursue that plot path, but meanders among the thoughts of the living. She has a loss, too: Her boyfriend has been missing in action in Vietnam for three years. At the post office, and again at a bar where she has a night job, he meets Bertie Knox ( Ellen Pompeo), who sees inside when others only look at the surface. Remember him in " Donnie Darko," " The Good Girl" and "Lovely & Amazing." Here, too, he is a young man with troubled thoughts. Gyllenhaal, who in person is a jokester, in the movies almost always plays characters who are withdrawn and morose. JoJo, protected by intelligence and wit, looks closely and suspects a secret Joe is keeping, which leaves him stranded between the past and future. Ben, who has lost a daughter, now in a confused way hopes to gain a son, and encourages Joe to join him in his business as a real estate developer. Joe stays stuck in the Floss house, living in an upstairs bedroom, his plans on hold. They talk not in a sentimental way, but in that strange, detached tone we use when grief is too painful to express and yet something must be said.Īfter the funeral and the home visitation, the film follows what in a lesser film would be called the "healing process." "Moonlight Mile" is too quirky and observant to be described in psychobabble. We meet Joe Nast ( Jake Gyllenhaal), the fiance of the dead girl, and her parents Ben and JoJo Floss ( Dustin Hoffman and Susan Sarandon). At first only quiet clues in the dialogue allow us to understand that someone has died. "Moonlight Mile," which takes place in 1973, opens in an elliptical way.