Moonlight Mile
Overview
 
Moonlight Mile is a 2002 American romantic
Romance film
Romance films are love stories that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate involvement of the main characters and the journey that their love takes through courtship or marriage. Romance films make the love story or the search for love the main plot focus...

 drama film
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 written and directed by Brad Silberling
Brad Silberling
Bradley Mitchell Silberling is an American television and film director. He is married to the actress Amy Brenneman, who he met on the set of NYPD Blue and with whom he has two children, Charlotte Tucker and Bodhi Russell...

. This film was loosely inspired by writer/director Brad Silberling's own experience. He was dating actress Rebecca Schaeffer
Rebecca Schaeffer
Rebecca Lucile Schaeffer was an American actress best known for her role in the sitcom My Sister Sam...

 at the time she was killed by an obsessed fan in 1989.

The film takes its name from the Rolling Stones song of the same name
Moonlight Mile (Rolling Stones song)
"Moonlight Mile" is a song from The Rolling Stones' 1971 album Sticky Fingers.Credited to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, "Moonlight Mile" is widely considered to be one of the Rolling Stones' most underappreciated ballads. Recording began in March 1970 at Stargroves. The song was the product of an...

. The film's original title was Baby's in Black, and then later changed to Goodbye Hello, and then the current title.
Quotations

[to himself, as he issneaking out through the bedroom window] What are you, 16?

She was strong and real and messed up and wickedly honest... just like her mother.

The truth is hard. Sometimes it looks so wrong, y'know. The color's off, the style's wrong, but I guess... I guess it's where the good ones live.

I lost my friend.

[speaking to Bertie as she cries with her face turned away from him] Please let me see you. I want to see you.

I don't know where she is. Everybody says that they do. But I don't know. And I'm scared for my baby. And it's killing me 'cause not knowing, and I - I can't. I just can't. I can't - do anything.

Now, I've been hearing so much shit lately, so much fluff, I've started to lose sight of her already, and... a phrase like "filled with goodness" actually passed through my mind today.

I love you, Joseph.

 
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