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A Touching Drama About First Love

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Published March 16, 2024 at 5:48 PM EDT

Reese Witherspoon stars in the coming of age drama The Man In The Moon. Fourteen-year-old Dani and her older sister Maureen have always shared everything. When Court Foster moves in next door, the sisters become rivals as Dani experiences her first feelings of affection and Maureen finds the true love she's longed for.

9pm Saturday MAN IN THE MOON (1991) PG-13 Drama Romance
A coming of age story set in the south of the U.S. when Elvis was King.

The Man in the Moon on WLRN's Saturday Night Movie

Rural Louisiana, summer of 1957, Elvis is King. At 14, Dani is coming of age. Her older sister is beautiful, smart, and off to Duke in the fall; her mom's pregnant with number four (Dad wants a son), and Dad's pretty strict. Life gets sweeter when 17-year-old Court Foster, his widowed mom, and two little brothers move into the vacant farm next door.

Court likes Dani's high spirits and direct way, and though he has adult responsibilities on the farm, they go off swimming sometimes. The waters of adolescence are deeper than Dani realizes as hers and Court's feelings get jumbled. Then a heart-breaking accident throws wrenching surprises at Dani, and she must come to terms with new emotions.

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