The Man in the Moon Reviews

I wasn't really sure what to expect from this movie but since it was featuring Reese Witherspoon's acting debut, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, eventually, I was actually rather impressed. It wasn't really the story itself though. I mean, it was not bad but it was nothing really amazing either. In fact, they even had to bring not one but two freak accidents, of course one being lethal, to spice up the whole thing. Unfortunately, it is such an old artificial trick to add some drama and it is usually rather annoying. Eventually, what really made this movie work was the amazing performance delivered by Reese Witherspoon who was acting for the first time at only 14 years old. Indeed, while the rest of the cast was only decent at best, Witherspoon was just so pitch-perfect, so charismatic, she was just mind-blowing. She went so deep, showing the transition of a child becoming a young woman and experiencing for the first time the joy and sadness of falling in love. I wonder if it would have worked better with a younger actor than Jason London who was actually a few years older than his character but it was a minor issue. Anyway, to conclude, even if this movie was not a masterpiece, it is still definitely worth a look, just to see Reese Witherspoon already stealing  the show with her very first performance.