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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Lions Gate
Salesrank: 52852
Released: February 8, 2005 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Al who is a nice guy who stumbles into a weekend of wacky intrigue when he gives ellie a ride from los angeles to the mojave desert. All never expects ellie to fall in love with him nor does he expect to fall for her mother julie. When julies lunatic boyfriend shows up al gets more action the he wanted. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 02/08/2005 Starring: Danny Aiello Anne Archer Run time: 95 minutes Rating: R
Mojave Moon Reviews:
Crappy movie. Nice knockers. 
2009-08-16 - It's as if Sherwood Schwartz tried to make a David Lynch film.
Lame script. No atmosphere. Bad acting.
Nice knockers though.
Get 'Wild at Heart' instead.
Mojave Moon 
2009-07-06 - This movie is good for no other reason than Angelina Jolie, but Danny
Aiello was also good. The confusion of the start of the movie was never
answered completely until the end. Good directing and script. The desert
brought back memior's of when I was stationed at Barstow, good shots.
not worth the effort 
2009-06-01 - "Mojave Moon" is a zany story of just what can happen in the desert during a full moon. Recently retired, Al McCord hasn't yet made peace with his new situation. The doldrums of his life are broken when he meets Ellie, an attractive young woman. After giving Ellie a ride into the Mojave Desert, an unlikely entanglement grows with the young woman's mother. The mother's unstable boyfriend soon complicates the situation. "Mojave Moon" has several issues. First, the writing is mediocre. The main characters are caricatures of themselves. Such a deliberate attempt is made to have the actors and actresses play the roles of rebellious teenager, sweet housewife, mean redneck and restless retiree that the characters become static stereotypes. In the end, there is almost no character development. Also, if the premise taps into the notion that people do weird things on the night of the full moon, why does the time frame span a week or so? Whether it's the dialogue, individual scenes or plot architecture, the writing is a drawback. The second issue is the acting. Granted, it can be hard to tell where lackluster writing ends and acting begins. The actors and actresses may have made the best of working within the limits of the script as interpreted by the director. It's possible but unlikely. It seems that the primary reason this film remains in-print is so that fans of Angelina Jolie can enjoy one of her earlier roles. (Indeed, while she was almost unnoticeable on the original movie poster, the new DVD cover prominently features the actress.) As Ellie, Jolie plays a teenage vixen. While she's as attractive as ever, Jolie's acting in this role is garden variety. Given this work, most would have a hard time predicting that the twenty-one year old actress would eventually earn Golden Globes and even an Academy Award. Given the overall timbre of this movie, it's hard to believe that it was released in 1996 as it has that silly feel of films from the early 1980s. "Mojave Moon" has merit but it should only be watched by the most curious Angelina Jolie fans.
silly but fun early Angelina Jolie film 
2009-05-09 - A silly romantic comedy about the strange patterns we all blame on the moon. Angelina Jolie is cute in her role as a wayward child hitching a ride from a much older man (Danny Aiello). Peter MacNicol's cameo is over-the-top hilarity that's worth watching the whole movie for. Overall, "Mojave Moon" is a movie that doesn't take itself too seriously, nor should it.
IT'S ONLY ME, BUT:
2008-06-01 - JOLIES CHARACTER CATCHES A RIDE FROM LA TO HER HOME INTHE MOJAVE DESERT. SHE FALLS IN LOVE WITH THE DRIVER AL. AL FALLS IN LOVE WITH HER MOTHER JULIE. JULIE'S BOYFRIEND GOES BESERK. ALL SORTS OF WEIRF THINGS HAPPEN THAT WEEKEND UNDER THE MOJAVE MOOM. JM
