Demi Moore she told another interviewer, "I was 17 years old. I was underage. It was just the cover." Moore made her film debut with a brief role in the 1981 teen drama "Choices", directed by Silvio Narizzano. Her second film feature was the 3-D sci-fi horror film "Parasite" (1982), for which director Charles Band had instructed casting director Johanna Ray to "find me the next Karen Allen." Moore then joined the cast of the ABC soap opera "General Hospital", playing the role of an investigative reporter until 1983. During her tenure on the series, she made an uncredited cameo appearance in
Demi Moore Motion Picture but won the Hollywood Film Festival Award for Best Ensemble Cast. She played a grieving and tormented novelist in the mystery thriller "Half Light" (also 2006). Moore took on the role of a driven police officer investigating a serial killer in 2007's "Mr. Brooks", with Kevin Costner. "The New York Times" found her performance to be "the most wooden" of her career, writing: "Looking exhausted and tense, the actress is as expressive as a wax museum effigy". "Mr. Brooks" made US$48.1 million worldwide, and was Moore's last widely released film until 2017. She reunited with "Blame It on