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Racing with the Moon
(directed by Richard Benjamin, 1984)
Racing with the Moon is a terrific film starring Sean Penn and Elizabeth McGovern as young lovers who only have a short time together in the early 1940's as Sean Penn's character, Henry 'Hooper' Nash, has been drafted in the Marines. The film also stars Nicholas Cage as Sean Penn's longtime best friend. The two work at a bowling alley, where they reset bowling pins after someone knocks them down (horrible looking job! I never thought about bowling before there were machines that automatically fixed the pins for you.) Elizabeth McGovern's character works inside the box office of a movie theater and it is there that Sean Penn first discovers her. She later finds him in a soda shop where he pretends to be a worker and ends up giving away a whole pie to her. After that, he follows her to where she lives and discovers that it's a very nice place -- a mansion, really -- she must have money, he assumes. But things are not as they seem.
ATTENTION RODENT!: This movie features a big scene where Sean Penn and Nicholas Cage have a pool match with some guys. You might like that.
There's not much else I really feel like saying right now about Racing with the Moon. I don't wanna give too much away. Maybe you've already seen it, dear reader.
It's a modest movie. But I found it more enjoyable than I thought I would. It wasn't boring. The pacing was good. The romance was sweet. The characters were memorable and remarkable. My biggest complaint? Perhaps the soundtrack. I dunno, too joyous and happy sometimes. It got on my nerves. Other than that, everything else about works. I particularly liked a scene where Sean Penn and Elizabeth McGovern visited wounded soldiers at a veteran's hospital to bring them books (she works in a library) and also when they first go on a double date at a skating rink, but not with each other.
The movie also deals with abortion.
Special acknowledgements: Carol Kane has a nice, very small role in the beginning as a prostitute. CAROL KANE as a prostitute? Would you buy her? Also, Sean Penn goes skinny dipping with Elizabeth McGovern and you see his bare ass. You also see her breasts. Unfortunately, there wasn't any Nicholas Cage nudity, but he does have some nice, muscular arms, which he shows off when he wears a wife beater.
(directed by Richard Benjamin, 1984)
Racing with the Moon is a terrific film starring Sean Penn and Elizabeth McGovern as young lovers who only have a short time together in the early 1940's as Sean Penn's character, Henry 'Hooper' Nash, has been drafted in the Marines. The film also stars Nicholas Cage as Sean Penn's longtime best friend. The two work at a bowling alley, where they reset bowling pins after someone knocks them down (horrible looking job! I never thought about bowling before there were machines that automatically fixed the pins for you.) Elizabeth McGovern's character works inside the box office of a movie theater and it is there that Sean Penn first discovers her. She later finds him in a soda shop where he pretends to be a worker and ends up giving away a whole pie to her. After that, he follows her to where she lives and discovers that it's a very nice place -- a mansion, really -- she must have money, he assumes. But things are not as they seem.
ATTENTION RODENT!: This movie features a big scene where Sean Penn and Nicholas Cage have a pool match with some guys. You might like that.
There's not much else I really feel like saying right now about Racing with the Moon. I don't wanna give too much away. Maybe you've already seen it, dear reader.
It's a modest movie. But I found it more enjoyable than I thought I would. It wasn't boring. The pacing was good. The romance was sweet. The characters were memorable and remarkable. My biggest complaint? Perhaps the soundtrack. I dunno, too joyous and happy sometimes. It got on my nerves. Other than that, everything else about works. I particularly liked a scene where Sean Penn and Elizabeth McGovern visited wounded soldiers at a veteran's hospital to bring them books (she works in a library) and also when they first go on a double date at a skating rink, but not with each other.
The movie also deals with abortion.
Special acknowledgements: Carol Kane has a nice, very small role in the beginning as a prostitute. CAROL KANE as a prostitute? Would you buy her? Also, Sean Penn goes skinny dipping with Elizabeth McGovern and you see his bare ass. You also see her breasts. Unfortunately, there wasn't any Nicholas Cage nudity, but he does have some nice, muscular arms, which he shows off when he wears a wife beater.