It is a performances centric movie

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Famed writer George Dunlap (Albert Finney) grows tired of his wife Faith (Diane Keaton). He leaves her and their four girls (Dana Hill, Viveka Davis, Tracey Gold, Tina Yothers) for his mistress Sandy (Karen Allen). Faith is depressed and then contractor Frank Henderson (Peter Weller) shows up at her door. He was hired before the split to build a tennis court. The family struggles with getting divorced and life after divorce.It's dark and it has some light. It has some over the top moments but it feels relatively real. There is a lot struggling going on. The drunken child beating is fine but the arguing in the restaurant is problematic. That scene is played for laughs but I kept wondering why they aren't getting kicked out. There has to be a better way to get them back in bed together. It felt too manufactured. As a side note, it's wonderful to see many of these future stars as little girls. I've been rewatching Family Ties recently. Dana Hill could be the central character but I also see the value of having two veterans at the center. The good far outweights the less good.

There are no easy answers in this emotionally devastating film about the breakup of a marriage and its effect not just on a husband and wife but also on their four children.Diane Keaton is perfect. Her Faith Dunlap is human, giving and needy at the same time, loving and practical, fierce and frail, and ultimately indomitable -- all without losing her humanness. She inspires in Albert Finney a performance of the volcanic force that he hadn't given in years. Director Alan Parker and screenwriter Bo Goldman don't shy from laying bare the pain, the frustration, the second-guessing and even some of the joys that result. I have seen this film dozens of times since it came out, and it never fails to affect me.

Well done, realistic film. Though Keaton gives her usual strong performance. And Finney does a good job of acting as the man coming apart (he reminds me of Richard Burton in Night of the Iguana). But the real story here for me was between Dana Hill's character and both her parents. I am not too familiar with Dana Hill, though I somehow recognize her from something. But in this film she does a marvelous job of showing the pain felt by children from parental separation. Another thing about this film is that it somehow really manages to remind me of the late 70s/early 80s. A side note for compaction equipment fans: check out that Dynapac roller!!! No idea which model is being used to compact the tennis court. But it looks like a great machine.

I enjoyed shoot the moon even though I saw it so very long ago.This movie is a lost gem. I wanted to see it as soon as I saw the previews all those years ago. This was a beautiful, well acted film that should have receieved more attention then it did. The movie was sometimes sad and touching and always realistic and well acted.I think Shoot the moon was a better picture then many films its been compared to, just a lot less known. I enjoyed it more then many others including Ordinary people. While it might not be very well known, that doesn't mean its not good. It's a powerful and good film that is very much, worth checking out.