Moonstruck

 Moonstruck 1987

• Director: Norman Jewison
• Seen by this director: In Country, And Justice for All, Jesus Christ Superstar, Fiddler on the Roof, In the Heat of the Night, The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming!
• Based on the novel: no
• Cast: Cher, Nicholas Cage, Olympia Dukakis, Danny Aiello
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Cher – Mama Mia Here We Go Again, Tea with Mussolini, Mermaids, Suspect, The Witches of Eastwick, Mask, Silkwood
• Nicholas Cage – The Weatherman, Bringing Out the Dead, Face/Off, Red Rock West, Wild at Heart, Raising Arizona, Peggy Sue Got Married, Rumble Fish, Fast Times in Ridgemont High
• Olympia Dukakis – Steel Magnolias, Working Girl
• Danny Aiello – Léon, Do the Right Thing, The January Man, The Godfather II
• Why? Cher.
• Seen: Once before. Now 28 August 2021.      

       Loretta (Cher), a 37-year-old widow, living with her parents, is proposed to by Johnny (Aiello) in an Italian restaurant with everyone watching. She says yes.

       But before the wedding he has to go to Sicily to his mother’s deathbed. He wants Loretta to call his brother Ronny (Cage) to invite him to the wedding. She goes to see Ronny. Things happen.

       Are Italian Americans really like they are in films? There’s simply too much family here and they all seem like movie stereotypes.

       I don’t like the story, most of the acting is exaggeratedly hammy and Cage is awful, the most unconvincing lover, not to mention opera lover, I’ve seen. But Dukakis as Cher’s mother is very good, and Cher is phenomenal. The two of them raise a mediocre film to 

3* of 5. Hal, who’s more romantic than me, gives it 4*.