Moonlight Mile
• Tagline: In life and love, expect the unexpected.
• Director: Brad Silberling
• Writer: Brad Silberling
• Release Date: 4 October 2002 (USA)
• MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13 for some sensuality and brief strong language.
• Parents Guide: View content advisory for parents
• Genre: Drama | Romance
• Runtime: 91 min
• Box Office #’s: Here
A young man lingers in the family home of his fiancee, after her accidental death. While grieving along with her parents and drawn into legal issues presented by a district attorney seeking justice for the family, he finds himself falling in love with another woman, against his own best intentions.
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Cast Highlights
• Dustin Hoffman … Ben Floss
• Susan Sarandon … Jojo Floss
• Ellen Pompeo … Bertie Knox
Trivia
- Neighbor’s Restaurant is really Haley’s Liquor Store in Marblehead, Massachusetts.
- Loosely inspired by writer/director Brad Silberling’s own experience. He was dating actress Rebecca Schaeffer at the time she was killed by an obsessed fan in 1989.
- Writer/director Brad Silberling wrote the characters of Ben and JoJo Floss with Dustin Hoffman and Susan Sarandon in mind.
- Keanu Reeves was considered to play the part of Joe Nast.
- A screening of the film was held at Salem State College’s auditorium in Salem, Massachusetts which is adjacent to Marblehead where the film took place.
- The original title of the film was “Baby’s in Black” named after The Beatles’ song. But the producers found it too expensive to obtain the rights to use the song. So the film was renamed “Moonlight Mile” after a lesser-known tune by The Rolling Stones.
- When Jake Gyllenhaal and Dustin Hoffman are sitting on the park bench talking, the scene is actually two locations. When you see them from the front, that is in Marblehead, Massachusetts. When you see them from behind, you’re seeing Gloucester, Massachusetts (where Perfect Storm was filmed). You can see evidence of the two locations in the bench they are sitting on – the numbers and thickness of the slates change at the different points of view.
