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Moonlight Serenade

2009 · 91 min

A gentle, music-filled romance that unfolds slowly, pairing warm performances with a bittersweet, easygoing charm.

Overview
A jazz musician performs alongside a coat check girl with a beautiful voice in this musical drama from director Giancarlo Tallarico. By day Nate earns his living as a financial manager, but when night falls, he helps the girl with her singing career at the jazz club, where she performs one night a week. In time both realize they share something special other than the music.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • music
  • ambition
  • identity
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • musical
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour3
Realism7
Romance7
Tension2
Darkness2
Complexity3
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
drama, romance
Directed by
Giancarlo Tallarico
Written by
Jonathan Abrahams
Starring
Amy Adams, Scott G. Anderson, Moon Bloodgood, Harriet Sansom Harris, Alec Newman, JB Blanc, Felix J. Boyle, Justin Carroll
Music
Joey DeFrancesco
Cinematography
Eric Larson
Runtime
91 min
Languages
English

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