Pontiac Moon is a 1994 adventure film directed by Peter Medak, and produced by Robert Schaffel and Youssef Vahabzadeh. The film stars Ted Danson as Washington Bellamy, a "pigheaded" science teacher in a small California town, and Mary Steenburgen as his wife Katherine. Danson was also one of 3 executive producers of the film, along with Jeffrey D. Brown and Robert Benedetti. The film takes place in the summer of 1969, when NASA astronauts successfully landed on the moon for the first time, in the Apollo 11 spacecraft. Katherine, suffering from panic attacks caused by an automobile accident... which resulted in the loss of their unborn child, refuses to leave the house, while Washington is a man of adventure who enjoys travel and experiencing life. As a result of the conflict between the two, eleven-year-old son Andy has never traveled in a car, nor has he ever left town. Washington, who also maintains a ragtag collection of automobiles of various vintages, decides to travel with Andy to the Craters of the Moon National Park, arriving at the very moment the Apollo 11 crew lands on the moon.
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| Release date: | November 4, 1994 |
| Directed by: | Peter Medak |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 108 Minutes |
| Editor: | Anne V. Coates |
| Music by: | Randy Edelman |