Mojave Moon |  | Director: Kevin Dowling
Actors: Danny Aiello, Anne Archer, Michael Biehn, Angelina Jolie, Alfred Molina
Studio: Lions Gate
Category: DVD
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Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 30211
Format: Color, Full Screen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Published)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 95 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 17052
UPC: 031398170525
EAN: 0031398170525
ASIN: B0006Z2LKQ
Theatrical Release Date: 1996
Release Date: February 8, 2005
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Product Description
Al who is a nice guy who stumbles into a weekend of wacky intrigue when he gives ellie a ride from los angeles to the mojave desert. All never expects ellie to fall in love with him nor does he expect to fall for her mother julie. When julies lunatic boyfriend shows up al gets more action the he wanted. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 02/08/2005 Starring: Danny Aiello Anne Archer Run time: 95 minutes Rating: R
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Danny Aiello stars as a fiftysomething car salesman from Los Angeles who agrees to escort a voluptuous minor (Angelina Jolie) back to the desert trailer where her seductive mother (Anne Archer) and psychotic boyfriend (Michael Biehn) wait for her. Various misadventures follow: after the young people take off, Aiello dances with the older woman under the moonlight, falls asleep, finds a body in his car trunk the next morning, and is gradually absorbed into the boyfriend's paranoid delusions. The script by Leonard Glasser is a bit intoxicated with its own offbeat tone, and the direction by Kevin Dowling leaves something to be desired about this independent feature. But the fine cast helps make up for these deficiencies, and the Mojave desert locale is a fun and unusual setting in which to see this particular group of actors on screen. --Tom Keogh
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 Crappy movie. Nice knockers. August 16, 2009
Marvin Wyatt (North Central)
It's as if Sherwood Schwartz tried to make a David Lynch film.
Lame script. No atmosphere. Bad acting.
Nice knockers though.
Get 'Wild at Heart' instead.
 Mojave Moon July 6, 2009
James L. Boggess Sr.
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This movie is good for no other reason than Angelina Jolie, but Danny
Aiello was also good. The confusion of the start of the movie was never
answered completely until the end. Good directing and script. The desert
brought back memior's of when I was stationed at Barstow, good shots.
 not worth the effort June 1, 2009
The Delite Rancher (Phoenix, Arizona)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
"Mojave Moon" is a zany story of just what can happen in the desert during a full moon. Recently retired, Al McCord hasn't yet made peace with his new situation. The doldrums of his life are broken when he meets Ellie, an attractive young woman. After giving Ellie a ride into the Mojave Desert, an unlikely entanglement grows with the young woman's mother. The mother's unstable boyfriend soon complicates the situation. "Mojave Moon" has several issues. First, the writing is mediocre. The main characters are caricatures of themselves. Such a deliberate attempt is made to have the actors and actresses play the roles of rebellious teenager, sweet housewife, mean redneck and restless retiree that the characters become static stereotypes. In the end, there is almost no character development. Also, if the premise taps into the notion that people do weird things on the night of the full moon, why does the time frame span a week or so? Whether it's the dialogue, individual scenes or plot architecture, the writing is a drawback. The second issue is the acting. Granted, it can be hard to tell where lackluster writing ends and acting begins. The actors and actresses may have made the best of working within the limits of the script as interpreted by the director. It's possible but unlikely. It seems that the primary reason this film remains in-print is so that fans of Angelina Jolie can enjoy one of her earlier roles. (Indeed, while she was almost unnoticeable on the original movie poster, the new DVD cover prominently features the actress.) As Ellie, Jolie plays a teenage vixen. While she's as attractive as ever, Jolie's acting in this role is garden variety. Given this work, most would have a hard time predicting that the twenty-one year old actress would eventually earn Golden Globes and even an Academy Award. Given the overall timbre of this movie, it's hard to believe that it was released in 1996 as it has that silly feel of films from the early 1980s. "Mojave Moon" has merit but it should only be watched by the most curious Angelina Jolie fans.
silly but fun early Angelina Jolie film May 9, 2009
AIROLF (USA)
A silly romantic comedy about the strange patterns we all blame on the moon. Angelina Jolie is cute in her role as a wayward child hitching a ride from a much older man (Danny Aiello). Peter MacNicol's cameo is over-the-top hilarity that's worth watching the whole movie for. Overall, "Mojave Moon" is a movie that doesn't take itself too seriously, nor should it.
IT'S ONLY ME, BUT: June 1, 2008
Joan M. Mckeown (ontario, canada)
JOLIES CHARACTER BUMS A RIDE FROM LA TO HER HOME IN THE MOJAVE DESERT FROM AL. SHE FALLS IN LOVE WITH AL. AL FALLS IN LOVE WIT HER MOTHER JULIE/ JULIES BOYFRIEND GOES BESERK. ALL SORTS OF WEIRD THINGS HAPPEND UNDER THE MOJAVE MOON THAT WEEKEND. JM
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