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Two Moon Junction movie storyline. April is a shy, beautiful young southern girl who is engaged to a handsome wealthy man named Chad. April loves him, but one day, April and her sisters go to a local carnival and meets a muscle bound worker named Perry. April doesn’t think much of him at first. April parents who are both respected politicians, leave town for a few days and April stays with her cankerous grandmother Belle, but April is more closer to Belle’s housekeeper Delilah and asks her to cover for her while April goes back to the carnival.
Belle, aware of what she is going to do, asks Sheriff Hawkins to spy on her. April returns to the carnival to find Perry, drunk and disordered. Perry’s friend, Patti Jean asks April to go with her on a night on the town, so Perry can sober up. While April and Patti Jean are gone, Perry’s enemy and carnival gambler Smiley!
Two Moon Junction is a 1988 American erotic thriller romance film written and directed by Zalman King and starring Sherilyn Fenn and Richard Tyson. The original music score is composed by Jonathan Elias. The film is noted for the final film appearances of Burl Ives and Hervé Villechaize, as well as the theatrical film debut of Milla Jovovich.
Film Review for Two Moon Jonction
“Two Moon Junction” is a feature-length version of those soft-core sex fantasies marketed on video by Playboy and Penthouse. It involves the usual plot: A muscular, bare-chested carnival roustabout lays waste to a fluttery Southern girl who always wears billowing white dresses.
The sex scenes are preceded by interminable exchanges of glances, during which the belle and the roustabout frown erotically at each other, as if they have an itch, or a headache. When they’re not together, the belle passes the time taking long, steamy showers, and the roustabout pounds a lot of stakes.
The story is such a compilation of cliches that I hesitate to describe it, for fear of being taken for a satirist. It stars the beautiful Sherilyn Fenn as April Delongpre, daughter of a senator and heiress to an old and rich Southern family, and Richard Tyson as Perry, the carnival worker. Missy April is engaged to marry the handsome Chad Douglas Fairchild (Martin Hewitt), but after she sees Perry with his shirt off at the local carnival, it is only a matter of time until they are making up new rides of their own.
“Two Moon Junction” (no pun intended, I guess) tells the story of their tempestuous passion against a backdrop of Southern mansions, BMW convertibles, truck cabs, billowing white draperies, Champagne glasses, long-neck beer bottles and lingerie by Fredericks of Hollywood. The movie begins a few days before the Delongpre-Fairchild wedding is scheduled to take place, but April’s fiance is out of town (in Tuscaloosa, signing the papers for their new condo) and her family conveniently departs en masse for “the lake.” That leaves the young woman with lots of time on her hands, and she is drawn irresistibly back to the carnival midway and the attentions of the hunk she can’t get out of her mind.
For a movie that was apparently not intended as a comedy, “Two Moon Junction” has some genuinely funny moments in it. Kristy McNichol turns up in a high-voltage cameo, as another of Perry’s one-night stands, and hands out some spicy dialogue and girl-to-girl advice about the braless look. And Louise Fletcher, as April’s grandmother, has a memorable speech to her grandchildren in which she nostalgically lists all of the great people who have dined at the Delongpre table: ”
President Wilson… Jimmy Carter… Lyndon Johnson… and Betty Ford, after her rehabilitation.” As her wedding day grows closer, April is torn between her growing love for Perry and her “family duty” to marry Fairchild. Meanwhile, her grandmother has assigned the local sheriff (Burl Ives) to keep an eye on Perry, and everything comes to a climax during the wedding ceremony itself, which is not half as much fun as it should have been.
Two Moon Junction (1988)
Directed by: Zalman King
Starring: Sherilyn Fenn, Richard Tyson, Louise Fletcher, Burl Ives, Kristy McNichol, Juanita Moore, Don Galloway, Millie Perkins, Milla Jovovich, Nicole Rosselle, Kerry Remsen, Chris Pedersen
Screenplay by: Zalman King
Production Design by: Michelle Minch
Cinematography by: Mark Plummer
Film Editing by: Marc Grossman
Costume Design by: Maria Mancuso
Set Decoration by: Susan Mina Eschelbach
Art Direction by: Sarah Burdick Stone
Music by: Jonathan Elias
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Lorimar Film Entertainment, The Samuel Goldwyn Company
Release Date: April 22, 1988
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