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Overview

User Rating:
7.1/10   14,469 votes
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Director:
Norman Jewison
Writer:
John Patrick Shanley (written by)
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Release Date:
18 December 1987 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Romance | Drama more
Tagline:
Life. Family. Love.
Plot:
A widowed Brooklyn book-keeper is torn between her fiancé and his brother. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
Won 3 Oscars. Another 15 wins & 11 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(45 articles)
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Cher is great more (111 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Cher ... Loretta Castorini

Nicolas Cage ... Ronny Cammareri
Vincent Gardenia ... Cosmo Castorini

Olympia Dukakis ... Rose Castorini

Danny Aiello ... Mr. Johnny Cammareri
Julie Bovasso ... Rita Cappomaggi

John Mahoney ... Perry
Louis Guss ... Raymond Cappomaggi
Feodor Chaliapin Jr. ... Old Man (as Feodor Chaliapin)
Anita Gillette ... Mona
Leonardo Cimino ... Felix
Paula Trueman ... Lucy
Nada Despotovich ... Chrissy

Joe Grifasi ... Shy Waiter
Gina DeAngeles ... Old Crone
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Bride and the Wolf (USA) (original script title)
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Runtime:
102 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English | Italian
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby

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Trivia:
The movie was named as one of "The 20 Most Overrated Movies Of All Time" by Premiere. more
Goofs:
Errors in geography: Loretta and Jonny leave the Grand Ticino restaurant, seen as being on Hicks St, which is in downtown Brooklyn. Loretta drives Jonny to the airport for his flight to Sicily, traveling via a tunnel. Since it's an international flight, he'd be going to JFK, but there's no need to travel via a tunnel from Brooklyn to JFK. more
Quotes:
[Johnny, at his mother's deathbed, telephones his fiancee Loretta]
Loretta Castorini: Did you tell her we're getting married?
Johnny: I'm waiting... I'm waiting for a moment when she is peaceful.
Loretta Castorini: Well, don't wait until she's dead.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in "I Love the 80's 3-D" (2005) more
Soundtrack:
It Must Be Him more

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18 out of 23 people found the following comment useful.
Cher is great, 10 February 2004
8/10
Author: rbverhoef (rbverhoef@hotmail.com) from The Hague, Netherlands

'Moonstruck' is a love story. There is not one romance, there are at least three, but they all have to do with the same family. Loretta's family. Loretta (Cher) is about to marry Johnny Cammareri (Danny Aiello). She doesn't love him, but he is sweet and good man. When he leaves to visit his dying mother in Italy Loretta meets Johnny's brother Ronny (Nicolas Cage). He and Johnny haven't spoken each other in five years and Loretta wants to invite him to the wedding. Of course they fall instantly for each other.

How this story and love stories of Loretta's parents and uncle and aunt develop is something you simply have to see for yourself. Every seen is a delight to watch, with Cher as the bright star in the middle of everything. She won and really deserved the Oscar that year. Cage is pretty good, and goofy as well, and Olympia Dukakis as Loretta's mother and Vincent Gardenia as her father are terrific. This movie is funny, charming and therefore highly enjoyable.

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