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starstarstarstar Kevin Thomas - LA Times
starstarstar Susan Stark - Detroit News
starstarstar Jay Carr - Boston Globe
starstarstar Stephen Hunter - Washington Post
starstarstar Jonathan Foreman - NY Post
starstarstar Rob Blackwelder - SPLICED Online
starstarstar Robert Horton - Film.com
starstarstar Margaret McGurk - Cincinnati Enquirer
starstarstar Joe Baltake - Sacramento Bee
starstarstar Mark Burger - Winston-Salem Journal
starstarstar John Hartl - Seattle Times
starstarstar Lisa Schwarzbaum - EW
starstarstar Jeff Vice - Deseret News
starstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstar Richard Corliss - TIME

Goes right up to the edge, inviting compassion rather than uneasy laughter at the spectacle of people behaving foolishly in the grip of heart-wrenching pain and overpowering emotion

- Kevin Thomas

The movie stretches plausibility to the snapping point

- Richard Corliss

A Walk on the Moon

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A restless housewife (Diane Lane) falls hard for a hippie salesman (Viggo Mortensen) while on vacation with her family during the summer of 1969. Wth Liev Schreiber, Anna Paquin, Tovah Feldshuh, Bobby Boriello. Director: Tony Goldwyn (1999, R)

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