It wasn’t until years later that she auditioned for her first movie, The Man in the Moon. “I freaked out,” she said of getting the job. “It was the summer before I started my freshman year ...

The heartwarming coming-of-age film set in the 1950s stars Reese Witherspoon as a 14-year-old girl who gets her first difficult lesson in love. Also stars Sam Waterston and Tess Harper.