Albert Finney and Diane Keaton star in Alan Parker’s Shoot the Moon (1982), a searing, beautifully acted portrait of love, heartbreak, and family turmoil.
A mother of four is abandoned by her husband for a younger woman. Husband, wife and children struggle to survive the seemingly inevitable divorce.
There wasn’t a single scene in the English director Alan Parker’s first three feature films (Bugsy Malone, Midnight Express, Fame) that I thought rang true; there isn’t a scene in his new picture Shoot the Moon, that I think rings false.
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