Serious Moonlight (2009 film)
- Meg Ryan: Louise
- Timothy Hutton: Ian
- Kristen Bell: Sara
- Justin Long: Todd
- Kimberlee Peterson: Trashy
- Andy Ostroy: policeman
Serious Moonlight is an American comedy film from the year 2009. Directed by Cheryl Hines, Meg Ryan, Timothy Hutton, Kristen Bell and Justin Long play the lead roles.
Action
When the lawyer Louise comes home, opens her husband Ian after 13 years of marriage, that he will leave them and fly with his young mistress Sara to Paris. Without further ado ties you Ian and holds him hostage in order to dissuade him from his purpose. After trying to escape them Ian binds tightly taped to the toilet of the house. While Louise makes errands, breaking the supposed gardener Todd into the house and robbed, in view of the helpless Ian, from this. When Louise comes home, she also is defeated and bound locked in the bathroom. Todd stayed with friends in the house. When Sara comes the next morning, angry because Ian did not appear at the airport, and finally she ends tied up in the bathroom, in which Ian has come to realize that he still loves Louise and she no longer wants to leave. After some bickering between Sara and Louise manages the trio to call the police in the now abandoned by the burglars house.
Some time later, Louise and Ian have one, presumably an adopted baby. While walking the family met Todd, which Louise in passing greets remarkably friendly.
Background
Screenwriter Adrienne Shelly was murdered a year before filming began. At the end of the film appears to her in honor of a dedication. For Cheryl Hines, the film was the directorial debut. Shelly and Hines played together in the film Waitress - For love there is no recipe, in which Shelly also directed. Shelly's widower, Andy Ostroy, produced Serious Moonlight and has a small supporting role as a police officer.
Publication
The film was premiered in April 2009 at the Tribeca Film Festival. On 4 December 2009 he launched distributed by Magnolia Pictures in the American cinema. In Germany the film was released on April 29, 2010 directly to DVD and Blu -Ray. The worldwide box office earnings stood at 138 696 U.S. dollars.
Reviews
TV Feature Film described the film as " grim chamber play ", be a " night cap in the second half " in the " dissonance between joke, hardness and tearfulness too large".
At Rotten Tomatoes, the film received a rating of 28%.