The Hunter's Moon (1999)

Interesting facts

The Hunter's Moon is a 1999 American action drama direct-to-video film directed by Richard C. Weinman. Set in the Appalachian mountains, it stars Burt Reynolds, Keith Carradine and Hayley DuMond. Relatively unknown, the film had a limited theatrical release in the Southern United States, and was later released on home video.

Production

The Hunter's Moon was the only film Richard Weinman directed, although he had previously worked on another rural-themed film, 1988's Pumpkinhead. Weinman said that he wanted to explore the subjects of "freedom and people controlling other people's lives".

The film was independently distributed; cowriter and co-executive producer, Bill Kemper, came up with the idea for the movie, and provided most of the funding. Although set in the rural Appalachians, the film was shot in southern California.

The Hunter's Moon premiered in April 1999 at 18 theaters in Memphis and Nashville in Tennessee, and Jacksonville, Florida. These were effectively test runs; the filmmakers hoped that it would do well enough in the South for them to release it nationally, as other backwoods films, such as Poor White Trash and Girl from Tobacco Row, had done before it. The movie's reception, however, was tepid, so the hoped-for national release never happened.

In July 1999, The Hunter's Moon was released on home video. Also in 1999, the film was shown at the Long Island International Film Expo in Malverne, New York.

The actors who play the romantic leads, Keith Carradine and Hayley DuMond, met on set. Carradine became smitten with DuMond, several decades his junior, and they started dating. The couple would marry in 2006.

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