Shoot the Moon
Director: Alan Parker
Year Released: 1982
Rating: 1.5
Successful novelist Albert Finney leaves wife Diane Keaton and four children for another woman (Karen Allen), but as with most divorces, things get incredibly messy, and his temper makes him behave irrationally. What some consider 'truth' is a just a carefully planned sequence of awkward moments (instead of internal examination): Keaton and Finney look uncomfortable at an awards ceremony, the girls spill hot chocolate all over themselves in a diner, Allen and Finney's daughters discuss sex and ice cream, Dana Hill drops several 'f-bombs,' and so on. Accompanying the awkward scenes are the Outburst Scenes: dishes get smashed in the kitchen, Finney invades the house and whips Hill with a hangar, Keaton's father dies in Finney's grasp, Finney smashes up the house with his car before getting mauled by Peter Weller. There is a really good performance in there by Finney, but you have to look past a lot.
