The Man in the Moon Page #5

Synopsis: Rural Louisiana, summer of 1957, Elvis is King. At 14, Dani is coming of age. Her older sister is beautiful, smart, and off to Duke in the fall; her mom's pregnant with number four (Dad wants a son), and Dad's pretty strict. Life gets sweeter when 17-year-old Court Foster, his widowed mom, and two little brothers move into the vacant farm next door. Court likes Dani's high spirits and direct way, and though he has a man's responsibilities on the farm, they go off swimming sometimes. The waters of adolescence are deeper than Dani realizes as hers and Court's feelings get jumbled. Then Mother Nature throws wrenching surprises at Dani, and she must come to terms with new emotions.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): Robert Mulligan
Production: MGM
  3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Rotten Tomatoes:
89%
PG-13
Year:
1991
99 min
Website
2,080 Views


to you anymore, Maureen.

I don't ever want to be

close to you again.

Mama?

Mm-hmm.

I don't want

to be at church today.

Can I go

with daddy, please?

All right.

Mama, I loved him.

I don't know how to stay

alive without him.

I know.

I'm sorry.

Oh.

I'm so sorry.

You know, Dani...

you and Maureen

are going to be sisters

for a long time.

Don't ask me

to forgive her...

because I can't.

You've got a right

to grieve, Dani.

You got a right

to be hurt.

But if you get so wrapped up

in your own pain

that you can't see

anyone else's,

then you might just as well

dig yourself a hole...

and pull the dirt in

on top of you,

because you're never going

to be much use to yourself...

or anyone else.

You don't know

what she did.

I know enough.

I know

hating your sister

is not going

to bring Court back.

Maureen's been good to you

all your days.

Remember that.

She's hurting bad

right now...

hurting as much as you.

Maybe more.

[Echo of Dani]

Hey!

[Echo of Court]

Hey yourself!

You ready?

Just hold on, ok?

go!

[Sobbing]

It's ok.

It's ok.

It's ok.

Dani:
Maureen...

is it always going

to hurt this bad?

Mama says it won't.

I hope she's right.

I hope so.

You know...

sometimes...

I think that nothing's ever

going to make sense again.

Maybe life's not

supposed to make sense.

Doesn't that scare you?

Yes, it does.

I wish I could

still talk

to the man

in the moon...

don't you?

It would be nice.

Maureen?

What?

Will we always

talk to each other?

Always.

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Jenny Wingfield

Jenny Wingfield is an American screenwriter and novelist. Born in Fountain Hill, Arkansas, Wingfield spent much of her childhood in Louisiana, where her father was a preacher. She attended Southern State College (now Southern Arkansas University) in Magnolia, and after graduating taught languages for several years. Her screenwriting credits have included the films The Man in the Moon and The Outsider, as well as Hallmark Hall of Fame's A Dog Named Christmas, which was the winner of the 2010 Genesis Award. Her debut novel, The Homecoming of Samuel Lake was published in 2011. more…

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