Racing With the Moon

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CodyZamboni Z Solid character drama as 2 friends, soon to be drafted during WW2, spend their last weeks partying, dodging trains, and being carefree, But the good times are tempered by their real fears of of getting killed or losing a limb, ideas about being rich and poor, falling in love, and dealing with an unplanned pregnancy, All this tests their friendship, and forces them to grow up a bit faster. Spot on performances by Sean Penn and Nick Cage, Nice period detail, and location cinematography of a small California coastal town. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 04/20/25 Full Review Steve D Breaks no new ground but does its job. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 08/24/23 Full Review Audience Member Simple character study of 2 young men waiting to go to war and the troubles they get into before being called up. Penn gives a mature yet subtle performanace as Hopper Nash as a yound man who falls in love for the first time and always needing to bail out his screwball friend (Cage). Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Audience Member Charmingly undervalued and underrated coming of age film. Sensitively acted and directed film which packs an emotional punch at its climax. Beautiful film score by Dave Grusin. Still stirs deep emotions 35 years after I first saw it. Production Values and massive budgets are not always key to making meaningful and poignant cinematic statements. This is proof that a good story with good actors and a sensitive ensemble can deliver a classic even if its under the radar. Kudos to director Richard Benjamin who I first remember as an actor in the Sunshine Boys with George Burns and Walter Matthau. I never knew how MUCH I liked this film until I saw it again after so much time. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member The best romance movie ever made! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Audience Member A movie about not that much, and about everything - when young men try to suppress the realization they soon will be marching to possible oblivion ... in 1942, before the war had begun to turn. The cast is great, young ones whose stars were just beginning to rise in the West. Elizabeth McGovern, the girl of one's dreams. And interesting to see Penn playing the straight one, the stand-up anti-eternal-Spicoli guy. But there you have it. Richard Benjamin could've cut the movie 10-mins shorter and probably it would've been even better, benefiting from better pacing. But it's still good. The '80's were a good time for a certain kind of movie ... like this one - the John Hughes era maybe ... before the cell phone & a twitter'verse started snarking & claiming lives. | Norm de Guerre Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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