Liars Moon is probably most immediately notable these days for having a very early starring role from a young Matt Dillon just before he hit stardom. To be fair, it is a movie with a lot more to offer than that and certainly is one that seems to have gone under the radar. Set in the 50's in the rural American south, it tells the story of a poor boy and rich girl who fall in love but the boy's mother and the girl's father do not approve of this class crossing love affair.
This was another film from b-movie producers Crown International but it really is very different to most of the features they put out. It's a period set love story which is quite removed from their usual schlock genre offerings. The budget is modest but the production values are high enough to pull off the period setting effectively, while the cast are all very good. The story itself about young lovers from different sides of the tracks is a fairly common one but this one does have the added angle of playing its story out as a real tragedy with an ending that is thoroughly bleak! I do understand that there are two different endings out there for this one, the other being more conventional and happy. But despite the downer nature of the ending I saw, I think it's one that stays in your memory more and is more effective in dramatizing its theme of the way past lies of older generations can shape the present in terrible ways for their offspring.
This was another film from b-movie producers Crown International but it really is very different to most of the features they put out. It's a period set love story which is quite removed from their usual schlock genre offerings. The budget is modest but the production values are high enough to pull off the period setting effectively, while the cast are all very good. The story itself about young lovers from different sides of the tracks is a fairly common one but this one does have the added angle of playing its story out as a real tragedy with an ending that is thoroughly bleak! I do understand that there are two different endings out there for this one, the other being more conventional and happy. But despite the downer nature of the ending I saw, I think it's one that stays in your memory more and is more effective in dramatizing its theme of the way past lies of older generations can shape the present in terrible ways for their offspring.