Shoot the Moon (1982)

Storyline

A fifteen year marriage dissolves, leaving both the husband and wife, and their four children, devastated. He’s preoccupied with a career and a mistress, she with a career and caring for four young children. While they attempt to go their separate ways, jealousy and bitterness reconnect them. Shoot the Moon, the 1982 Alan Parker divorce family relationship melodrama (“There’s one thing about marriage that hasn’t changed… The way you hurt when it begins to fall apart.”; about a troubled couple splitting up and the effect it has on their children) starring Albert Finney, Diane Keaton, Karen Allen, Peter Weller, Dana Hill, Tracey Gold and Tina Yothers. Note that Gold and Yothers went on to major careers in hit television series (“Growing Pains” and “Family Ties”)