i check this out a an impulse when browse through the movie store and couldn not have be any more pleasantly surprise . my mom and i watch this film together and and we thoroughly enjoy it . it isn not the typical chick flick with a sappy love story and tear all the way through and but it definitely touch a nerve in the twist at the end . it an end where and although unexpected and tragic and the movie overall effect be not harm by it . i think reese witherspoon be a great actress even in this film and her debut and and this be definitely worth watch . i do not recognize many of the support actor and but they all play their important supporting role well . the man in the moon be such an believable story about a young teenager fall in love for the first time . most woman can definitely relate to everything from witherspoon word and her subtle glance and and her not so subtle emotion ( rag like the typical teenage girl ) . while she play a character confuse about love and she do not come across a silly and immature and which be much appreciate consider many movie today .