Moonlight Mile

This has got to be one of the best movies I've seen in a long time. Just the charisma between Dustin Hoffman, Susan Sarandon, Jake Gyllenhaal and Ellen Pompeo ("Grey's Anatomy")would be enough to make this an awesome film. However, we can't forget about the story, the set and scenery, the location and the music. The story starts off with the recent death of Diana Floss. Diana is daughter to Ben (Hoffman) and Jojo (Sarandon) and was engaged to marry Joe (Gyllenhaal). We then get to see how the family, friends and town deals with this tragic event and how the events unfold. Bertie (Pompeo), who works at the Post Office and a local bar, ends up befriending Joe one day when he comes to the office. She too is grieving over the loss of a loved one and really represents love in this film. This movie has lots of seriousness, comedy and just real life going on in every single scene. I think one of my favorite parts in the movie is when Joe is having dinner with a family and the hostess seems to think he shouldn't be "tangled up in all that still" two weeks after the death of his fiancee. He then explains a bit to her about some of the "entaglements" involved in the recent death of his loved one. I watched some of the extras on this and the director, Brad Silberling, really reminded me of Cameron Crowe in the way he talked about his film like it was part of his life story. Silberling has directed a lot of TV and I think this was his first excursion onto the movie side. He's also done Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, if you've seen that one. For some reason I really like this guy. I'm interested to see what he comes out with next.