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Pontiac Moon

  • 1994
  • PG-13
  • 1h 48m
IMDb RATING
5.6/10
796
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Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, and Ryan Todd in Pontiac Moon (1994)
Drama

An absent-minded-professor father and his son bond during a symbolic road trip through the Western U. S. while his wife tries to overcome her neuroses to save the family.An absent-minded-professor father and his son bond during a symbolic road trip through the Western U. S. while his wife tries to overcome her neuroses to save the family.An absent-minded-professor father and his son bond during a symbolic road trip through the Western U. S. while his wife tries to overcome her neuroses to save the family.

  • Director
    • Peter Medak
  • Writers
    • Finn Taylor
    • Jeffrey D. Brown
  • Stars
    • Ted Danson
    • Mary Steenburgen
    • Ryan Todd
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.6/10
    796
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Peter Medak
    • Writers
      • Finn Taylor
      • Jeffrey D. Brown
    • Stars
      • Ted Danson
      • Mary Steenburgen
      • Ryan Todd
    • 20User reviews
    • 8Critic reviews
  • See production, box office & company info
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    Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, and Ryan Todd in Pontiac Moon (1994)
    Pontiac Moon (1994)
    Pontiac Moon (1994)
    Ted Danson and Ryan Todd in Pontiac Moon (1994)
    Cathy Moriarty and Mary Steenburgen in Pontiac Moon (1994)
    Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, and Ryan Todd in Pontiac Moon (1994)
    Ted Danson and Ryan Todd in Pontiac Moon (1994)
    Cathy Moriarty in Pontiac Moon (1994)
    Ted Danson and Ryan Todd in Pontiac Moon (1994)
    Pontiac Moon (1994)
    Peter Medak in Pontiac Moon (1994)
    Pontiac Moon (1994)

    Top cast

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    Ted Danson
    Ted Danson
    • Washington Bellamy
    Mary Steenburgen
    Mary Steenburgen
    • Katherine Bellamy
    Ryan Todd
    Ryan Todd
    • Andy Bellamy
    Eric Schweig
    Eric Schweig
    • Ernest Ironplume
    Cathy Moriarty
    Cathy Moriarty
    • Lorraine
    Max Gail
    Max Gail
    • Jerome Bellamy
    Lisa Jane Persky
    Lisa Jane Persky
    • Alicia Frank
    J.C. Quinn
    J.C. Quinn
    • Bartender
    John Schuck
    John Schuck
    • Officer
    Don Swayze
    Don Swayze
    • Local
    Gene Borkan
    • Trucker with Cigarettes
    Ron Burke
    • Ranger
    Ramsey Ellis
    • School Kid
    Frank Carl Fisher Jr.
    • Fred Frook
    Suzanne Ircha Johnson
    • Waitress
    • (as Suzanne Ircha)
    Dewey Kellogg
    • Trucker with Broken Axle
    James Oscar Lee
    • Buffalo Bar Singer
    Tamara Wilcox-Smith
    • Buffalo Bar Singer
    • Director
      • Peter Medak
    • Writers
      • Finn Taylor
      • Jeffrey D. Brown
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      While playing a married couple in this film, Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen began an off-set romantic relationship. They were married in 1995.
    • Goofs
      Andy fires paper cups out of his bedroom window, leaves it open then moves to another window and climbs out on to the roof. The first window is now shown shut.
    • Connections
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert: Interview with the Vampire/Pontiac Moon/The Santa Clause/Heavenly Creatures/Dr. Strangelove (1994)
    • Soundtracks
      On the Road to Find Out
      Written and Performed by Cat Stevens

      Courtesy of A&M Records, Inc.

    User reviews20

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    A Fun Trip in a Classic Car
    B"H Being an old-car nut, this movie appealed to me because of the '49 Pontiac Eight that is one of the "stars" of the movie. Ted Danson's acting was a little overdone, and some of the plot was thin. My kids hate the flick.

    However, watching Washington and Andy drive through the 1969 West in the Pontiac was fun. Besides the '49 Pontiac, there was an Amphicar (driven by Mary Steenburgen) as well as some neat oldies from the '40s sitting outside the Bellamy's home which Washington kept as collector cars.

    Ultimately it was fun to watch the Bellamy family together again, being saved from a police manhunt as they drove the Amphicar across a lake to Canada.

    Two parts of the movie were ridiculous; one was Andy Bellamy in his own father's science class, and putting a "455" V8 into the old Chief would have required major body modifications as well as a new transmission, impossible to do in a single night.

    Inspiring was watching both the astronauts and the Bellamys preparing for their voyages at the same time, the liftoff and that shift of the old Hydra-Matic Drive into DR was a lot of fun to watch.
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    • Dec 23, 2004

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • November 18, 1994 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Un viatge a la lluna
    • Filming locations
      • San Rafael Ranch State Park, Patagonia, Arizona, USA
    • Production company
      • Paramount Pictures
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $11,669
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $5,128
      • Nov 6, 1994
    • Gross worldwide
      • $11,669
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 48 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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