A Walk On The Moon is a 1999
drama film starring
Diane Lane,
Viggo Mortensen,
Liev Schreiber and
Anna Paquin. The movie, which was set against the backdrop of the
Woodstock rock festival of 1969 and the moon landing of that year, was distributed by
Miramax Films.
Plot summary
Pearl Kantrowitz (Lane) and her husband Marty (Schreiber) are a lower middle class Jewish couple in New York City, where Marty is a television repairman. The movie begins with Pearl and Marty taking their two children, a young boy and teenage girl Alison (Paquin) to a bungalow colony in the Catskills, where they go every year.