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In 1989, 21-year-old actress Rebecca Schaeffer (TV's My Sister Sam) was murdered by a deranged fan outside her home. Her death inspired then-boyfriend Silberling (City of Angels) to write this intimate drama, which he spent years shopping around before finding a home for at Disney. "There is such a fear of any story that has death as a backdrop, even as a catalyst," he says. Gyllenhaal (The Good Girl) stars as Joe, a young man grappling with grief after his fiancée is killed. Complicating matters, he is living with her parents (Hoffman and Sarandon) and finding himself drawn to a local woman (newcomer Ellen Pompeo), who is hiding a loss of her own. The movie had a brutally short 26-day shooting schedule. Says Hoffman, "I doubt [Silberling] got two or three hours of sleep at night." Luckily, Hoffman and Sarandon, who hadn't worked together before, felt right at home with each other. "We had the kind of relationship where I could just tell him to shut up," she says, "so that helps."
Walk This Way: To get pumped up before his scenes, Hoffman brought "an old person's walker," Gyllenhaal says, "and we would do all these exercises using it before takes. I got really good triceps."
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Moonlight Mile
Release Date: September 13
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Susan Sarandon, and Jake Gyllenhaal
Directed by: Brad Silberling
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