The King and Queen of Moonlight Bay (2003)

Stylish but barely mediocre overall

disgusting, overrated, pointless

Absolutely amazing

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

This was really a very poignant study of a girl who goes to spend a summer with her estranged father. How many of these revealing summer films have we been subjected to through the years, where people learn from each other during those 2 precious months together?Amazing that the film is as good as it is despite the fact that it is uneven in parts.Tim Matheson, as the father, has one of his best roles ever. When we first view him, his daughter has come for the summer before she heads off to college. Long divorced from her mother, Matheson is a handy man who drinks and seems to be resolute about life. He doesn't get along with his daughter and suddenly they're best friends. She learns how to fish, make signs and even lose her virginity that summer to a local boy. All is well and then suddenly a drunken Matheson slaps her and she is ready to leave again.Matheson's girlfriend suddenly assumes the role of counselor.Along with all of this, we have Ed Asner as a retired English teacher, a free spirit encouraging our young lady to read War and Peace.With it all, cliché up to the hilt, this movie is memorable as it deals with the human spirit and the discovery of fondness between father and daughter. There is a certain sadness that pervades us due to the fact that both father and daughter lost 11 precious years together. Nonetheless, the ending is revealing in itself.

My partner and I were watching this film on the Lifetime network and adding its memorable quotes to the empty section here at its IMDb page. We soon started giggling at the audacity in innocence. The film concerns a summer between the 17-year-old daughter of a late-40s drunkard Dad punctuated mostly by an overused Ad Asner as one of the colorful locals. Anyhow, the film totally reads as a very soft porn tape. The father has his girlfriend, and the daughter meets a neighbor boy, but the sexual lives of the two cannot but help to color their moments together: in his trailer, bobbing in the lake, up on a roof, etc. Kudos for the nerve of the writers. Aside from this campy subtext, the story is not at all dull. The guitar is clichéd, but the tale moves tenderly forward!

I saw this movie close up..I was in it. In the background protecting some ladies during the fight scene where Tim's character belts the guy for rubbing him wrong at the bar.BTW, that guy he hit was the lead stunt man for the Matrix.I have been in several films including Shadow Of A Doubt with Brian Dennehy..another excellent made for TV (NBC) movie.Moonlight was a joy to work on and well produced and directed. A must see and a great way to view the beauty of a lake in the middle of the desert.Coop

I just got done watching this movie tonight and i must say that this movie was very heart warming. I recommend everybody seeing it.. Its about this girl going to see her father and basically her father is a drunk and she inspires him to speak his own mind, to tell his feelings, which he couldnt do. If this movie was for sale i would buy it in a heart beat. So if you ever see it on t.v or if they ever release it, buy it, cause you wont regret it!