Product Details

• Actors: Amy Adams, Alec Newman
• Directors: Giancarlo Tallarico
• Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Subtitles: Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Magnolia Home Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: December 8, 2009
• Run Time: 92 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002I41KNW
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #47,221 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Moonlight Serenade" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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MOONLIGHT SERENADE - DVD Movie

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful singing by Amy Adams, but a painful movie, December 6, 2009

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Steve Kuehl "SLV Video" (Boulder Creek, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Moonlight Serenade (DVD)

A quick summary would be to watch this for Amy Adams, but since she does not get a speaking line until 16 minutes in (her first actual scene flashes by with no lines), and then her singing sounds dubbed (yet still beautiful) one could be wary of this title. It played well in the store if I left it on a chapter repeat where she sings, but I lost every single potential rental when anyone else was "acting" or some other scene was taking place.

The story follows some corporate/financial guy as he grinds through work in the day and plays the piano/sings by night. He happens to come across a beautiful lady who can sing and their paths become entangled - tangled in horrible writing, atrocious supporting acting, bad sets, poor sound, dimly lit interiors, etc. Writing issues: One scene shows our horribly single main guy in a bar getting hit on by Moon Bloodgood (who looked phenomenal as always - a very short role) but he turns her down for no reason - they could not even write one (what guy would ever turn her down??). Any scene that involves his workplace had customers laughing as they watched it - it looked like a stage play with flubbed lines and bad re-takes. Another scene with Amy singing has her hiding in the street shadows and when you can briefly see her the words do not match, and the list goes on.

The sound is average to poor, the picture quality is fine to average - but fake when the moon pictures flash by. The story was either trying to fit in as a musical/romance or a bad time at work film, neither worked on their own, but some of her singing was outstanding. No special features so 2 stars for her singing and zero for everything else.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The things we do for love, January 17, 2010

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L. Power "nlp trainer" (San Francisco) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Moonlight Serenade (DVD)

If you like Amy Adams, you'll probably like this movie. If you like Jazz, particularly some of the standards, you'll probably quite enjoy this movie.

This movie was made in 2006, yet not released till now. In the meantime, lead actress Amy Adams has rightly become a huge star, getting Academy Award nominations for Junebug and Doubt, and having a huge hit with Enchanted (Full Screen Edition). I just saw Leap Year which is worth a look.

Moonlight Serenade has flaws, it's a B movie with an A actress. The music mostly, by Jazz virtuoso, Alex deFrancesco is absolutely excellent, and excellently performed by Amy Adams, who has a recording artist quality voice. Her main costar, Alec Watson resembles a young Sinatra in appearance. He has looks and charisma. I think he is a promising actor.

What I found lacking in the movie was not the acting, but the underdeveloped storyline, and the basic unbelievability of the characters behavior. Are we supposed to believe that a financial wizard would totally rethink his successful business strategy of selling short, and risk his career because he met a coatcheck girl, and aspiring singer. Are we supposed to believe that a narcissistic druggie boyfriend would suddenly act in his girlfriend's best interest. Are we supposed to believe that she, Chloe, would struggle to meet the piano player big Frank for an audition at a different club when they both already work in the same club. Why not just audition before the club opens? With some better direction the scenes could have played a little better, and the story could have been improved.

About halfway through this movie decides it's a musical, when the non musician played by Harriet Sansom Harris, (you may remember her as the ruthless agent on Frasier), suddenly and for no apparent reason bursts into song. This was disconcerting.

Other than that, I did enjoy the movie, in fact I watched it again. Safe to say Amy Adams will not be most remembered for this movie, yet this movie will be most remembered for Amy Adams. I though the best scene was at the end in the spotlight. Some people just shine in the spotlight, and belong there. Hope this was useful.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Surprisingly poor, December 28, 2009

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Stephen Ashley "Author of Walt Disney World w... (Florida, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Moonlight Serenade (DVD)

From my wife Sarah: We are big fans of Amy Adams, and so we can't understand how this movie happened to her. She's become a big star and has some great movies behind her. This was like a B movie, so it's surprising to see her in this.

Perhaps Amy chose this movie because she liked the idea of doing a musical. Personally I love musicals, and wish there were more made. But this one didn't work. The musical interludes were awkward, and sadly, often not very pleasing to listen to. There were a couple numbers that were nice, and the piano playing was really beautiful. But it was not enough to make this movie worth watching. As another reviewer mentioned, I noticed that you never saw the lead guy's hands playing the piano. It was too obvious that he wasn't playing.

We found the story trite and shallow, the characters unbelievable and the entire movie very, very dull. Amy did what she could with the script, but she didn't have much to work with. I admit I fell asleep for a few minutes. Amy if you read this - we're looking forward to you doing great things in the future. You're awesome.