A Walk on the MoonAnna plays Alison, a teenager who is dragged by her parents to their usual summer resort. This is Anna's first movie as a teenager, and even though the role isn't tiny, it's rather mediocre, and as such among her worse ones.
Anna plays Alison Kantrowitz, a 14-year-old who has had to come with her
parents and little brother to their usual, low-budget summer resort, and is
none too pleased. During the movie Alison "becomes a woman," gets her first
boyfriend, and goes to Woodstock. These events shadow the main story of her
mother Pearl, who got Alison young, with her first boyfriend, and feels
having missed out much of the things that her daughter is now experiencing.
At the resort Pearl meets handsome blouse seller (Viggo Mortensen), which
results in a crisis in her marriage.
Anna looks about the same age as her character, 14. She gets about 15
minutes of screen time, which is on the large side of medium by this site's
standards. The character of Alison is realistic yet rather clichéd, which
can be said of many things in the movie.
 While physically adult, Anna exhibits a lot of her youthful mannerisms in
this role, which makes it unique among Anna's performances. Don't let the
mere 1 year difference between the release years of this movie and X-Men
fool you: Anna is, or at least comes across much older in X-Men.
A Walk on the Moon builds heavily on the atmosphere of year 1969, including
the first walk upon the Moon. Aside from the Anna aspects, the movie
probably works best for those who have lived the time period. The themes
and their treatment has little new to offer, but some people are going to
enjoy the depiction of the time period.
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