Movies

May, 1984

Sean Penn, Nicolas Cage and Elizabeth McGovern are a dynamic trio of rising young stars who make Racing with the Moon (Paramount) look luminous even when the screenplay goes dim. The time is late 1942; the place is Point Muir, California, where Penn and Cage portray two teenaged buddies about to become Marine Corps cannon fodder during World War Two. It's all about youth and sex and bowling and abortions and small-town America's innocence and coming of age on the eve of doomsday. McGovern is an...