Shoot the Moon

Director Alan Parker and writer Bo Goldman chronicle the emotional disintegration of an unhappy marriage. Albert Finney and Diane Keaton play George and Faith Dunlap, a seemingly happily married couple living with their four daughters in a converted farmhouse in Marin County, California. George is ...more

Alan Parker's film about the downside of the Marin County lifestyle of the period that Cyra McFadden had satirized in -Serial tracks the course of a disintegrating marriage. While the subject is the stuff of a thousand TV movies, and it can't be said that the film finds much new to say, Keaton and Finney raise the tone well above the usual fare, and Academy Award-winning screenwriter Bo Goldman is a careful observer of the difficult details of divorce. The film is somewhat skewed in the ...more