Yes, ‘Moon Garden’ Is a Children’s Movie; No, You Shouldn’t Take Your Children

Augie Duke is the film’s lead actress but she’s not the star. That would be Haven Lee Harris, the director’s daughter, a doe-eyed moppet who comes on like a Shirley Temple who’s read Camus.

Via Oscilloscope Laboratories
Haven Lee Harris in 'Moon Garden.' Via Oscilloscope Laboratories

Sometimes it pays to read the fine print. Toward the end of the press notes accompanying “Moon Garden,” the new movie by Ryan Stevens Harris, there is a list of “fun facts.” The first item concerns the medium itself: Mr. Harris and his cohorts used 100,000 feet of 35mm film stock, the majority of which was recovered from a basement at Omaha, Nebraska. Not only is the stock antiquated by contemporary standards, it has also expired. 

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