Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
SLM Production Group
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Shoot the Moon
There's one thing about marriage that hasn't changed... The way you hurt when it begins to fall apart.
After fifteen years of marriage, an affluent couple divorce and take up with new partners.
- Original title
- Shoot the Moon
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- —
- Revenue
- $8,100,000
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Jun 20, 2025 · via TMDB
The “Dunlap” family are living out the dregs of the marriage of novelist “George” (Albert Finney) and “Faith” (Diane Keaton) before he ups sticks and leaves her and their four daughters to take up with “Sandy” (Karen Allen) - herself recalibrating after a failed relationship and a woman completely in love with him. “George” is a bit of a selfish man, and though he certainly wants his mistress, he also wants his family, his home and essentially - his cake and eat it. Why, thinks “Faith” should she just sit at home waiting for him to grow up? Surely it’s time for her to do a little exploring of her own? Well an opportunity arises when the man who was supposed to be installing her tennis court turns up. She hasn’t his $1000 to pay him, but when he hears of her predicament “Frank” (Peter Weller) agrees to try and work something out. So now the scene is set, she is making some headway and he has his “Sandy”. Satisfaction? Well no. It’s fair to say that he hadn’t really considered the impact of his actions on himself, certainly, but nor had he on his children and his elder daughter “Sherry” (Dana Hill) swiftly makes it clear that she wants nothing to do with her errant father. This is something he can’t accept, and coupled with his soon to be ex-wife’s ability to seemingly get on with her life, his troubles start to have a toxic effect on not just “George”but on pretty much everything he touches. Tantrums and fits of rage ensue and Finney is very much in his element as his character gradually loses the plot, but it’s really the more subtle but forceful effort from Keaton that stands out here. She exudes a palpable degree of frustration and anger as well as a stoicism borne from her need to care for her children and a strength to try to find a life for herself, too. There is also a fairly compelling effort here from the young Hill who delivers well struggling to come to terms with why her family is being torn asunder. It has dated a bit, and the story itself is nothing especially new nor is much of the route it takes for a couple of hours of dramatic family dysfunction but the performances do merit watching and the denouement offers a degree of catharsis that only a film set (with lots of insurance) could supply.
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Albert Finney
George Dunlap
Diane Keaton
Faith Dunlap
Karen Allen
Sandy
Peter Weller
Frank Henderson
Dana Hill
Sherry Dunlap
Viveka Davis
Jill Dunlap
Tracey Gold
Marianne Dunlap
Tina Yothers
Molly Dunlap
George Murdock
French DeVoe
Leora Dana
Charlotte DeVoe
O-Lan Jones
Countergirl
Irving Metzman
Howard Katz aka Sheldon Katz
David Landsberg
Scott Gruber
Kenneth Kimmins
Maitre D'
Michael Alldredge
Officer Knudson
Robert Costanzo
Leo Spinelli
Lou Cutell
Willard
Nancy Fish
Joanne
Georgann Johnson
Isabel
Helen Slayton-Hughes
Singer
Morgan Upton
Photographer
Michael Seresin
Director of Photography
Kristi Zea
Costume Design
Gary Hymes
Stunts
Alan Parker
Director
Juliet Taylor
Casting
Alan Marshall
Producer
Bo Goldman
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