previous commentator steve richmond state that a walk on the moon be and in his word not worth your $ 7 . i end up pay a bit more than that to import what be one of the bad quality dvd i have yet see and of this film or any film in existence . even when you ignore the fact that the dvd be clearly source from an interlaced master and just plain nasty to watch in motion and the film have no redeeming quality ( save anna presence ) to make watch a top quality blu ray transfer worthwhile . not that this be any fault of the other actor . liev schreiber and diane lane and tovah feldshuh and and viggo mortensen all score high on the relative to anna paquin act ability chart . far more so than holly hunter or sam neill do in spite of an equally lousy script and anyway . director tony goldwyn resume be nothing to crow about and but pamela gray resume include wes craven most dramatic excursion outside of the horror or slasher genre and so one could be forgive for think this be a case of bad direction . a i have indicate already and the sole reason i watch this film be anna paquin . in her acting debut and she literally act veteran of the industry with a minimum of twelve year experience above hers under the table . while she be not a far ahead of her castmates here and her performance a a girl that start the piece a a brat and grow into a woman whose world be crash down around her prof her oscar be no fluke . for some time i have be state to friend that she would be the best choice to portray the heroine of my second complete novel and and a dialogue seventy three minute into this film be yet another demonstration of why . this woman could literally act the paint off wall . anna aside and only liev schreiber come close to elicit any sympathy from an audience . sure and his character spend the vast majority of the film neglect a wife with an existential crisis and but he play the angered reaction of a man who feel cheat brilliantly . i should know and even if it be not from the same circumstance here . viggo mortensen also deserve credit for his portrayal of a travel salesman and although perhaps not to the same extent . in a manner of speaking and he be the villain of the piece and but he successfully give the character a third dimension . yes and his action even after the whole thing explodes be underhanded and but not many men would act any differently in his situation . nobody want to be the other man in this kind of mess up situation and so viggo deserve a lot of credit for give it a try here . unfortunately and these be all participant in a story about a woman who feel trap in a stagnant marriage where tovah feldshuh tell u that the mill and boon archetype of woman be the only one who feel life be pass by simply do not exist . either writer pamela gray or director tony goldwyn think they could just put this line into the film without thinking of how the audience might receive it . anna even get to speak the mind of the audience when she ask diane who she be to be lecture anyone about responsibility . that say and the film do have a couple of thing besides anna go for it . mason dare original music and while not stand out in any way and give the film a certain feeling of be key into the time depict that help where the other element do not . roger ebert be right when he point out that while liev be a great actor and put him alongside viggo in the story of a woman force to choose between her marriage and her fantasy be a big mistake . he be also very correct in that when the film lingers over scene of lane and mortensen skinny dipping or mount one another under a waterfall and it lose focus from be a story of a transgression and become soft porn . the film seem terminally confuse about the position of it story . no matter how many time i rewatch liev scene and i can not help but feel he have be shortchanged in the direction or edit . one do not have to make their lead particularly handsome or beautiful and but take step to make them the most interesting or developed character in the piece would have go a long way . ebert also hit the nail right on the head when he say that every time he saw anna on the screen and he think her character be where the real story lay . story about the wife feeling neglected and run into the arm of a man who seem interesting or even dangerous be a dime a dozen and to such an extent now that even set the story in parallel with an event a earth shatter a the moon landing will not help . in spite of feel revulsion at the manner in which her character story be present and anna might as well be walk around with a neon sign above her head ask the audience if they would not prefer to see the whole thing through her eye . while i be all too aware that it be difficult to control exactly which character your audience will find the most interesting from your cast and it be very much a if they do not bother to try with lane and schreiber . fan of these two would be well advise to look elsewhere . hopefully by now my ramblings about the respective performance will give some idea of where the whole thing go wrong . i give a walk on the moon a three out of ten . anna paquin earn it a bonus point with one of her best performance ( and that be say something ) .