Moonlight Mile (2002) - on tv, just turned on to a scene where JakeGyllenhal is at a dinner with parents and girl being set up with, it appears. nice turn Jake. here it is:
June Mulcahey: [referring to Diana's death] He didn't tell me that you were [pause] still tied up in all that? Joe Nast: Really? June Mulcahey: No.
Joe Nast: Well, you know, it was kind of a deal, the whole thing. The clean-up alone took days. You'd be amazed at what a mess a high-caliber weapon can make, an in a restaurant, all those little pieces of - all of - well anyway, let's just say it was pretty time-consuming. Then you got the whole burial to deal with. This whole coffin business - much more complicated than people think. Standard sizes? Dream on! Had to custom-fit the whole deal. Had a tailor come out, do her size right then and there. Do you know how hard it is to have a tailor come out to do house calls? And on a school night? I mean.. [laughs] ...this is pulling teeth, you know what I'm saying? And then, you know, of course you got the house to deal with, and that's a whole other ordeal, you know? Cause who wants her stuff around, right? I mean, that's a valuable room, why waste it? So, you slog through that and, yeah, next thing you know a couple of weeks have gone by and your thinking to yourself "man oh man, am I still tied up with all this? Where did the time go?"
and, I expected, yes there it is - the daughter Jillian, who he is being set up with, who came in uncomfortable and embarassed, smiles at him at this.
and who was this June Mulcahey, mother of Jillian? very familiar.Roxanne Hart and I know her from where? she was in one episode of GreysAnatomy, can't be that. I remember her as a mother similar to here. huh, same year 2002, she was JakeGyllenhal's mother in The Good Girl. still doesnt seem like that's where familiar to me from.
I like Dustin Hoffman. don't seem to like Susan Sarandon. but she's good.
I really like Holly Hunter, who is lawyer here - prosecuting the gunman?
and look at this pretty barmaid, turning the heads of the older guys at the bar. it's Ellen Pompeo pre Meredith. ah, she and Joe have a thing.
imdb post: Anyone notice similarities in the cinematography in "Moonlight Mile" to that of Hal Ashby's "Harold & Maude?" Lots of really nice wide angle shots, putting the beautiful-but-gloomy scenery in the center and the characters off to the side. And I guess the vague 1970's implications, morbid subject matter and the soundtrack make me think of "Harold & Maude" as well. huh that's interesting. his speech above reminded me of the kid in Harold & Maude, I thought, maybe it was the setting of the stiff formal dinner and parents and the kid making a scene. and I even wondered if that's where I knew the mom from.
and the soundtrack. ending with Van Morrison singing Sweet Thing worked for me, sentimental:

We shall walk and talk
in gardens all misty wet with rain.
And I will never, never, never grow so old again

Oh sweet thing, sweet thing.
My, my, my, my, my sweet thing.
And I will raise my hand up
into the night cloud's sky.

I will never grow so old again.

And I'm younger now - (history my dear friend. years away you say my name, I'm settled down and I won't give up again.) richard buckner