MOONLIGHT MILE (2002)

CHARACTER Shell-shocked Joe Nast, a Vietnam-era twentysomething who grieves for his murdered fiancée by moving in with her eccentric parents (Susan Sarandon and Dustin Hoffman)

LOVE INTEREST Bertie (future Grey's Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo), the plucky postal worker/barmaid who experiences an immediate, and mutual, attraction to Joe

HEARTTHROB FACTOR: 8 Though Joe and Bertie's romance is surprising and sweet, it's Gyllenhaal's chemistry with Sarandon and Hoffman that jerks the tears.

EW GRADE: C+
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