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I haven't seen this movie in a few years, but I found it so memorable that I have been searching for it for some time, at least to rent, just so I can see it again.

This film is wildly different from what you'd expect from an "80's romantic comedy", and has a distinctly Canadian flavour. While Hollywood likes to believe that it can portray romance between atypical people, it really is the role of the indie or non-American film to do that justice, and, as a not-so-normal preteen (who, by the bye really loved swing during the age of New Kids) this movie really struck a chord with me. If you are tired of watching 27-year-old super models try to act like unaccepted young people, this movie is for you.

Brooke is odd and insists on being himself, but he is still lovable... That is a good message for anyone to see.

Why, oh why, is this not out on DVD??

This is a classic love story with a strange setting. Kiefer Sutherland plays a boy with some big social and affective problems, who falls in love with a deaf girl that is trying to find her place in the world. The way this is played out makes the story kind of hard to watch, but at the same time tremendously endearing.

Both actors do a great job, especially the girl, Vanessa Vaughan. I've read she's actually deaf, so I guess she had that as an advantage. Communication plays an important role in this movie, as both characters teach each other to beat their fears. And Vanessa's smile is nothing short of spectacular.

Crazy Moon is a love story about an introverted shy young man named Brookes played by Peter Sutherland who Meets a deaf girl named Anne played by Vanessa Vaughan. Brookes's brother Cleveland played by Peter Spence is a real loser who gets Brookes in trouble and has problems of his own. It was during one of Cleveland's pranks that Brookes meets Anne, The two brothers emotional problems stem from the fact that their Mother left them when they were at an early age.

The point of the movie is the way that the two young lovers Vanessa and Brookes who are from different backgrounds with their own emotional problems, help each other overcome their individual difficulties.

The film takes place in Montreal, and most of the scenes leave no doubt where it was filmed. There is so much music in the film; one could almost call it a musical. The music of the great big bands of the past adds to the film.

The lead actors Sutherland and especially Vaughan with the excellent direction of Allan Eastman make for a good sensitive love story.

This film is an excellent example of Canadian Kiefer Sutherland's acting talent. In this film, he portrays an emotionally stunted young man, who meets a beautiful deaf girl. Although he is rich, and has all the advantages possible, he never got over the feeling of abandonment caused by his mother's disappearance after his birth. The deaf girl is attractively portrayed by Vanessa Vaughn, whom, I believe, is deaf in real life. Their courtship is very touching, as she helps him overcome his fear of swimming while he coaches her to speak better! They help each other with their physical and emotional limitations. Another interesting element to this film is the atmosphere! Most of the music is hit songs from the 30's, as well as Canadian alternative music from the mid-eighties! All set in a picturesque modern-day Montreal setting! Although the plot is definitely weak and contrived in some places, this is still a very worthwhile film to watch on an emotional level!

Brooks (Kiefer Sutherland) is a smart but odd teen from a rich family. He listens to old music, afraid to swim and misses his mother terribly. His father has yet another trophy wife. Brooks goes into a store to buy a mannequin from Anne (Vanessa Vaughan) but she's deaf and doesn't hear him. His douchy older brother runs off with a jacket and Brooks mindlessly takes the mannequin. He falls for Anne and they enrich each other's lives.

Feeling up the mannequin in front of Pamela is hilarious. Sutherland and Vaughan are a charming couple. They're both super sweet. I love all the old music which makes that cheesy concert of 80s music sticks out. The movie should try to stick to the old fashion music especially during the climax. I like the confrontation with his brother but Brooks becomes too much of a bad azz rebel in the end. He should keep his sweet oddball innocence. They should have a romantic kiss in the airport. It's a slight miscalibration.

Kiefer Sutherland, when not playing the slick villain that he was in Stand By Me or the Lost Boys, he was always playing these awkward shy polite guys that was just a little too wierd to enjoy (see Promised Land, 1969, and Brotherhood of Justice). I had a feeling that this was going to be just that. And it was.

So Sutherland plays Brookes, a strange teen shunned by his rich family due to his eccentric behaviors (he never really socializes with anyone or shows much emotion or does anything really considered "normal") and probably done because his family shuns him. His parents ignore him (they are hardly in the film) and his brother is quite vindictive, blaming Brookes for messing up the family life, saying he does what he does for attention.

Then, Brookes meets a lovely deaf girl and falls in love, happy to find someone just as "different" as she. She actually helps him to loosen up (though not much). On the box, the video store equated the film with Children of a Lesser God, and I suppose that it is a lighter, funnier version (though most of the movie made me mad given that Brookes exhibits little emotion and that's tuff to watch). It's comparable to Children of a Lesser God because a strange fellow meets a deaf girl who helps him out with his own emotional struggles. It's not as deep and dramatic, however.

I couldn't say that I liked this movie, with the exception that it got better towards the end once the main characters broke out of their annoying bubbles of solitude to show some depth.

This movie has everything a person could want in entertainment-a combination of comedy and a touching love story,the background music of guy lombardo and kenny gardiner is just great,sutherland gives a good account as a shy oddball but what makes this film memorable is the fine performance of the deaf girl played by vanessa vaughan and who could forget her lovely smile,a fine canadian production!

This movie is about a young man dealing with his overbearing father, manipulative younger brother, and overbearing stepmother all while trying to be his own person. He has a very unique personality, but is not retarded (someone made that comment in an earlier review). This movie is definitely worth seeing and will change your view on Kieffer Sutherland as an actor.

One of my favourite Sutherland movies - he and Vannessa Vaughan work fantastically together, and for all their quirks and oddities, the plot and the characters are quite unlike those of the boring romance films around today.

It's slightly old-fashioned in its sweetness and sentimentality, and Sutherland's character certainly isn't your average romantic lead. A very odd character, but an overwhelmingly sweet one - I fell in love him over the course of the movie!

I strongly recommend this film, particularly if you're a fan of Kiefer Sutherland in his younger days - I was utterly captivated, and couldn't get the soundtrack music out of my head for days.

This is my favorite movie. Never again have I seen Kiefer Sutherland play such a character as Brooks. He was open to being a character free of what others think of him or his way of life and found someone just as open. The end result, he finds love. This movie also shows two peoples' first love and that even with difficulties to overcome, dreams can come true.

As the first person on here stated, this movie should by all means be on DVD! This movie can be found on various sites, though I found the movie on Ebay.

Definitely a love story not to be missed.

I love this film. I saw it as a teenager on late night ITV years ago and was over joyed when i found it on DVD. I watched it and hoped it was as good as i remember it being when i saw it as a very tired teenager and i was not disappointed. A really sweet movie full of quirkiness, romance and music so eighties it hurts. Watch this movie and check out Kiefer Sutherland in one of his best rolls. He takes a lot of flack does Mr Sutherland from people who have only seen a select few of his movies and became slightly typecast during the 1990's until 24 relaunched his career at a time when the idea of Kiefer doing a role like that would have made most people chortle. I have to admit i do love Kiefer and have watched nearly all his films now, including t.v movies, some are not great (desert saints is pretty bad as is the break up)but some like After Alice, last days of Frankie the fly and crazy moon are exceptional. I framed my crazy moon poster yesterday that i got from ebay some years ago. Just looking at it made me want to get online and tell the world, now thats a sign of a good movie right?

I love this movie. I own it on VHS. There are some filmography sites for Kiefer that this isn't listed. I love that this is so obscure. I've loved Kiefer for so long. My husband has been mistaken for him, he looks just like him Only true fans know this movie. Picture of poop anyone.

That´s what the cover said, well i can agree to that. I always liked Kiefer Sutherland and his performance is not bad in this one either. So whats this move all about. Brooks (Kiefer Sutherland) is a eccentric rich kid with a foundness for big band music. He is dominated by his older brother Clevland (Peter Spence) that has a foundness for drugs and party. One day Brooks meets Annie, a deaf girl and they develop a special friendship and new understandings.

Well a good drama/love story depends on there charachters very much, and there are some flaws, for a start his brother played by Peter Spence is badly played, i guess its partly the directors fault. The movie has much of this 80´s style in it, but not all bad. I guess if the brother was played by somebody else and not totaly styled, this move could have been more timeless. As it is now, i get irritated everytime i see the guy. Well the movie is still good, i found it to be a very nice down to earth love story about to different types of induviduals, it has a nice pace and nice big band music (and a real crappy 80´s pop band ^^) and Kiefer is putting up a very nice preformance.

If you like to see a different down to earth 80´s love story, this is the movie.

Love this film! It has been well and thoroughly reviewed here, so I need not repeat the accolades.

This film IS available on DVD, but not in the USA. See site Amazon.co.uk and be surprised. The NEW copy I bought is Region 0, PAL, and not copy-protected. It will play on DVD players with ANY region setting, but some players will reject it because it is a PAL-encoded title set.

There are many simple ways around this problem, the easiest is to play it using your PC DVD software. There are cheap players for sale that will play NTSC and PAL without resorting to expensive commercially hacked units. For slightly more exotic solutions (like the infamous NTSC-patch method), do a little research, looking for "PAL-NTSC-DVD-Conversion patch method." I'll not go further into technical details, as that may be off-topic for this forum. There are lots of resources out there, OK?

IMPORTANT note: as not every UK merchant will ship to the USA/Canada market, you may need to select an alternate vendor.

GOOD HUNTING!

If there's one thing that bugs me most about Canadian films, apart from the fact that most of them are bad, it is that when it comes to making comedies, they almost always make them "quirky". I am so sick of Canadian quirky comedies! Though the problems with "Crazy Moon" go beyond quirkiness. The movie has more of a passing resemblance to the cult movie "Harold & Maude" - both movies have rich young men protagonists who are weird and get around in "funny" motor vehicles and have a romance with someone quite different. But in this rip-off, we have an unsympathetic protagonist who is not fleshed out very well, as well as comedy that simply falls flat. If you must see a Canadian comedy that concerns itself with a romantic relationship where one of the characters is disabled, watch "Love At First Sight". It's not a good movie overall, but it's much better than "Crazy Moon".