Who is junie moon

Meeting in a hospital, they decide to pool their meager resources and face the world together. The play tells of their adventures, sad and happy, comic and tragic. Read an Excerpt. Run Time 95 min. Customer Reviews "Junie Moon offers young actors a challenge in stretching to portray people who are not physically or emotionally attractive.

It was a difficult but ultimately rewarding production. Thematically it deals with something all teens are looking for -- acceptance. I was recently made aware that there is a movie by this name--please do yourself a favor and read the book instead!

Jul 29, Deborah J Miles rated it it was amazing. Wonderful read. I first read this back in and it's back on my to read list again. Thoroughly enjoyed this strong story. Jun 16, Brian James rated it liked it. Warren, Arthur, and Junie Moon are three tortured souls who meet in the hospital while recovering from ailments. When these "misfits" make a pact to leave the hospital and live together, no one really believes they will make it.

Confined to wheelchair after being shot in the back by the only man he ever admitted his love to, Warren is the unofficial leader of the group and the catalyst for almost everything that happens to them.

Arthur suffers from a degenerative disease that doctors cannot iden Warren, Arthur, and Junie Moon are three tortured souls who meet in the hospital while recovering from ailments.

Arthur suffers from a degenerative disease that doctors cannot identify, but perhaps is more plagued by the hurt of abandonment. Junie is a tragic figure who has had her face and hands disfigured by acid burns from a troubled lover. The are individually damaged, but together seek to heal as they move into a rundown house under a large tree that serves as a kind of protector.

Healing is hard, as they soon discover. Healing hurts. But what they find is a sense of belonging with each other, a sense of family which none has ever truly had. They find love and more importantly, acceptance. I read this book while in my 20s. I found it in my mother's library. Since my mother's name was June, I selected the book for it's title, "Junie Moon.

As I read the book over 40 years ago, I remember I thought that the disfiguring scars that Junie Moon suffered reminded me of the scars that my own mother suffered. Jul 12, Laise rated it really liked it. And so came the last 3 pages, and i got hooked up, and than it was done.

That fact that i read on my second language didn't played in favor whether. Aug 24, Martha Earl rated it it was amazing. I have not read this as an adult. I loved it. It spoke to me in that time of my life. Social outcasts and people with disabilities can overcome obstacles and find happiness, despite many obstacles. Our society has come a long way in some ways and is backsliding in others. Interesting read of three physically and emotionally damaged people who form a bond with each other in hospital and continue that once they are out.

Another one with deeper meanings that probably went over my head May 26, Stephanie rated it it was ok. Short and sweet, but fairly dated. The concept and characters were all very sweet and quirky, but the story didn't hold my attention very well. I laughed and cried and smiled. I read it on the beach. It was lovely, but less than spectacular.

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When it comes to writing, Jocelyn Johnson is about that life. The Virginia native—born, bred, and wed—has had aspirations of being a Read more Add content advisory. Did you know Edit. Trivia When shooting wrapped, Liza Minnelli declared publicly and in tears that she would never again work with the "tyrannical" director Otto Preminger. When she was working on the film, her mother, Judy Garland , had died and Liza Minnelli suffered a period of mourning.

Most critics cited this reason as the source of her highly emotional performance in the film. Goofs The front and rear license plates on Mario's jeep do not have the same number. Quotes Arthur : Warren made love last night. Crazy credits The opening and closing credits roll over folk singer Pete Seeger walking through the woods with his guitar and singing the film's theme song, "Old Devil Time".

Connections Featured in Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker User reviews 18 Review. Top review. Since I found out today that Pete Seeger died, I have been watching much of his work here on the internet. Earlier today, I watched a couple of his short films on Internet Archive.

Now, I just watched this obscure major studio feature film from in which he appeared at the beginning and end singing the film's theme, "Old Devil Time".

Those were his only appearances. The movie proper concerns the title character Liza Minnelli whose face is scarred and her friendship with a paraplegic Robert Moore and an epileptic Ken Howard. I admit to being partially confused by much of the beginning especially when they did flashbacks and dream sequences. But, by the time they went on vacation, I was glad I stayed in viewing this.

Some of the New York critics have taken him to task for this, accusing him of missing the delicacy and compassion of the Kellogg novel. Maybe so. But maybe that was necessary to make the movie work; if Preminger had played on our sympathy, everything would have fallen apart.

See, we might "feel sorry" for people like the three in "Junie Moon," but that wouldn't lure us into the theater. So instead Preminger tells us a story, keeps it moving and directs most of it like a comedy. He proves, incidentally, that he CAN direct comedy, an element absent from the disastrous "Skiddo. Moore, a director himself, turns in a marvelous performance, but it almost gets buried beneath the homosexual affectations written into the script. You get the feeling that in the scenes involving homosexuality, Preminger is going for cheap laughs he doesn't reach for elsewhere.

Still, Moore has enough charm to carry the role. Miss Minnelli is quite good as Junie Moon; not as good, perhaps, as she was in " The Sterile Cuckoo " but then that role was handmade for her. Ken Howard is restrained and pleasant as the third member of the trio thankfully, because otherwise things would have gotten too loud.