Moonstruck


Moonstruck is a 1987 American romantic comedy film directed by Norman Jewison and written by John Patrick Shanley. It stars Cher, Nicolas Cage, Danny Aiello, Vincent Gardenia, and Olympia Dukakis.

Thirtysevenyearold Loretta Castorini Cher, a SicilianAmerican widow, is an accountant in Brooklyn Heights, New York, where she lives with her family her father Cosmo Vincent Gardenia who is a successful plumber, her mother Rose Olympia Dukakis, and her paternal grandfather Feodor Chaliapin, Jr. Her boyfriend, Johnny Cammareri Danny Aiello proposes to her before leaving for Sicily to attend to his dying mother she accepts, but is insistent that they carefully follow tradition as she believes her first marriage was cursed by her failure to do so, resulting in her husbands death when he was hit by a bus. They plan to marry one month later, and Johnny asks Loretta to invite his estranged younger brother Ronny Nicolas Cage to the wedding. Loretta returns home and informs her parents of the engagement. Cosmo dislikes Johnny and is reluctant to commit to paying for the real wedding Loretta insists on, while Rose is pleased that Loretta likes Johnny but does not love him she believes that one can easily be driven crazy by a partner whom one loves.The next day, Loretta goes to see Ronny at his bakery after he refuses to speak to her on the phone. He reveals that he has a wooden prosthetic hand, and he explains that he blames Johnny for the loss of his hand and his own fiance Ronny became distracted while talking to Johnny as he cut bread for him, his hand was mangled in the slicer, and his fiance left him. Loretta insists that they discuss the matter upstairs in his apartment, where she cooks for him and then tells him that she believes he is a wolf who cut off his own hand to escape the trap of a bad relationship. Ronny reacts furiously and passionately, kissing Loretta who responds to his kiss and then sweeping her up in his arms and carrying her to his bed where they make love. ........

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