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Shoot the Moon - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
At the time of filming, Dana Hill was sixteen years of age when she was playing thirteen year old Sherry.
Shoot the Moon - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
This film, first released in 1982, is notable for only showing ring-dial telephones, even though the push-button touch phone had come into vogue by the late 1970s.
Shoot the Moon - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
One of seven movie collaborations of "The Two Alans" - producer Alan Marshall and director Alan Parker. The films include Birdy (1984), Fame (1980), Angel Heart (1987), Bugsy Malone (1976), Midnight Express (1978), Shoot the Moon (1982) and Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982).
Shoot the Moon - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Debut cinema feature movies of then-young television actresses Dana Hill, Tina Yothers, and Tracey Gold, though Gold's tele-movie Marilyn: The Untold Story (1980) did get theatrically released in certain territories.
Shoot the Moon - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
During the early 1980s, actor Albert Finney was in high demand. Finney made nine movies in three years. In fact, he finished his work on the movie Looker (1981) on a Friday, and and went to work on Shoot the Moon (1982) the following Monday.
Shoot the Moon - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The name of the song that Faith Dunlap (Diane Keaton) sang in the bathtub was "If I Fell" by The Beatles. The famous track is not credited in the film's closing credits.
Shoot the Moon - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Reference is made to the two other MGM movies that director Alan Parker made around the time of this picture. In the car, the children sing the title song from Fame (1980), whilst on the wall of one of the kid's bedrooms there is a music album poster from Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982).
Shoot the Moon - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Shoot the Moon - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Dunlaps' marriage lasted fifteen years.
Shoot the Moon - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The film's Shoot the Moon (1982) title is derived from the card game known as "Hearts", where a scoring technique in the game is known as "shooting the moon".
Shoot the Moon - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The title of the novel that George Dunlap (Albert Finney) won an award for at the 25th International Book Awards ceremony at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco in March 1981 was "The Court Game".
Shoot the Moon - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
At the time that the movie was made and released, director Alan Parker had the same number of children as the Dunlaps (Albert Finney and Diane Keaton) had in the movie (four daughters).
Shoot the Moon - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Star Albert Finney was BAFTA Film Award nominated for Best Actor for his role in this movie, but lost out to Ben Kingsley for Gandhi (1982).
Shoot the Moon - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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