A ‘Serious’ Look at Love

Rarely is there a film that allows one a chance to see the lengths that a person would go to, to save a marriage.

In Serious Moonlight, director Cheryl Hines tells the story – as if through a peephole – of two people, one of whom would do anything to get her husband back.

Meg Ryan plays Louise, a hard-working attorney who is content with her marriage. When she comes home one day, her husband Ian (played by Timothy Hutton) tells her that he’s leaving her.

To prevent that from happening, she tapes him to the toilet, thus forcing him to reevaluate their marriage and remember the good times that they once had.

Hines brings Adrienne Shelly’s (Waitress) screenplay to life. Shelly, who was murdered before Waitress debuted in theaters, always had a knack for telling a story that centered around characters with troubled relationships.

Both Ryan and Hutton are a perfect match for Louise and Ian. They both co-starred together in French Kiss, where Hutton’s character left his fiancé (Ryan) for someone else. Ryan steps away from the roles that she’s most known to play – the woman who the man falls deeply in love with. In Serious Moonlight, Louise is empowering and charismatic and holds her own against Sara (Kristen Bell), Ian’s other woman.

It’s refreshing to see a film that is not a typical love story, but could be seen as a realistic one. Hines brings Shelly’s story to life and the result is captivating.

Posted: December 7th, 2009 under Movies.
Tags: Adrienne Shelly, Cheryl Hines, Meg Ryan, Serious Moonlight, Timothy Hutton

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