Goldman's calling card, Shoot the Moon, was then filmed by Alan Parker and starred Diane Keaton & Albert Finney. The film received international acclaim and was embraced by America's most respected film critics:
Pauline Kael – The New Yorker
"Shoot the Moon is perhaps the most revealing American movie of the era.”
David Denby – New York Magazine
“The Picture seems like a Miracle. A Beautiful Achievement.”
David Edelstein – The New York Post
"One of the Best Films of the Decade."
However, due to a previous agreement Warren Beatty had negotiated with MGM the studio was bound that no film could be released with Diane Keaton in the same year as Beatty's Reds. Consequently, Shoot the Moon was effectively dumped – and subsequently released with little or no fanfare the following February – long after the fourth quarter "awards season." Nonetheless, Goldman's peers remembered and the following year he earned his third Writers Guild Award nomination. For many years the film was all but forgotten and not available on DVD until Warner Bros. aquried MGM's home video library and released the film in the summer of 2007. To this day the film has a perfect 100% score on the critic site Rotten Tomatoes.
"The great Bo Goldman. He's the pre-eminent screenwriter ––in my mind as good as it gets." Eric Roth, New York Times, 1998.
For the next few years, Goldman contributed uncredited work to countless scripts including Milos Forman's Ragtime (1981) starring James Cagney and Donald O'Connor, The Flamingo Kid (1984) starring Matt Dillon, and Warren Beatty's Dick Tracy (1990).
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Famous quotes containing the words shoot the, shoot and/or moon:
“I want to see you shoot the way you shout.”
—Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)
“To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs—but a tribute nevertheless.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)
“Suppose you attend to the suggestions which the moon makes for one month, commonly in vain, will it not be very different from anything in literature or religion? But why not study this Sanskrit? What if one moon has come and gone with its world of poetry, its weird teachings, its oracular suggestions,—so divine a creature freighted with hints for me, and I have not used her? One moon gone by unnoticed?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)