The Man in the Moon is a 1991 American drama film, directed by Robert Mulligan and starring Sam Waterston, Reese Witherspoon and Jason London. It was Mulligan's last film and Waterston's last theatrical movie before he moved to Law & Order, as well as Witherspoon's first film. In the summer of the 1957, Dani is a 14-year-old girl whom according to her father is, "too big to be running off by herself." Dani and her older sister Maureen, who is going off to college in the fall, are very close. Maureen helps her mother take care of their younger sister, Missy, while their mother Abigail ... is pregnant with the Trant's fourth child. Dani however prefers to run off into the neighbor's pond to go swimming in the nude. It is here where she meets her new neighbor, seventeen-year-old Court Foster . Court kicks Dani out of his pond. When Dani goes home, her mother tells her to wash up because an old friend of Mr. and Mrs. Trant's is coming for dinner with her children. Dani reluctantly showers up and puts on her Sunday's best clothes. The Trants' old friend, turns out to be a widow, Mrs.
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