{"id":41364,"date":"2026-03-23T10:02:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T14:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41364"},"modified":"2026-03-23T10:02:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T14:02:21","slug":"china-moon-starring-ed-harris-madeleine-stowe-and-benicio-del-toro-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41364","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;China Moon&#8221; starring Ed Harris, Madeleine Stowe and Benicio Del Toro \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z032326zview_chinamoon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"777\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>China Moon <\/strong><\/em>(1994)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:<strong> John Bailey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Roy Carlson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Ed Harris, Madeleine Stowe, Charles Dance, Patricia Healy, Tim Powell, Pruitt Taylor Vince<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>Benicio Del Toro<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:<em> He thought it was passion. It was deceit. He thought it was love. It was murder.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kyle Bodine, a detective in a small Florida town, is having a drink when he sees Rachel Munro across the room. Kyle tries to hit on her, but she&#8217;s not interested.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It turns out Rachel is married to a rich banker named Rupert Munro.\u00a0 The thing is, her marriage is not a happy one.\u00a0 Her husband is abusive.\u00a0 Before long Kyle and Rachel are having an affair.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Kyle and his partner respond to a domestic abuse call, they find Rachel showing signs of being beaten.\u00a0 Kyle threatens Munro what will happen if they get another call.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later Rachel tells Kyle that she is ready to leave her husband.\u00a0 Kyle drives Rachel home and waits in the car while she grabs a few things.\u00a0 They don&#8217;t realize her husband has returned home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Kyle hears a gunshot, he rushes in the house.\u00a0 Rachel is standing over her dead husband with the gun who killed him in her hand.\u00a0 Kyle&#8217;s first reaction is they need to call the police and report a self-defense killing.\u00a0 Rachel says, that no one will believe them.\u00a0 Her husband is wealthy and has influential friends.\u00a0 Plus Kyle had threatened her husband.\u00a0 Everyone will think that they planned the murder.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kyle has a decision.\u00a0 Call it in or get rid of the body and cover up the murder.<\/p>\n<p>As the tagline says: &#8220;<em>He thought it was passion. It was deceit. He thought it was love. It was murder.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you think <em>China Moon<\/em> sounds a lot like <em>Body Heat<\/em>, you wouldn&#8217;t be wrong.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>China Moon <\/strong><\/em>(1994) rates 3 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z032326zview_chinamoon2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"283\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China Moon (1994) Director: John Bailey Screenplay: Roy Carlson Stars: Ed Harris, Madeleine Stowe, Charles Dance, Patricia Healy, Tim Powell,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41365,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41364\/revisions\/41365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}