Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Dorathen Better Late Then Never

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Lee Eisenberg Norman Jewison has spent most of his career addressing social issues in his movies (In the Heat of the Night, Fiddler on the Roof, Other People's Money, The Hurricane) while taking the occasional break for straightforward entertainment. "Moonstruck" falls into the latter category. Cher plays a woman who falls for her fiance's younger brother. It was odd that the director of "Rollerball" directed this. It's not a bad movie, just nothing spectacular. As for the Academy Award wins, I'd say that Olympia Dukakis rightfully earned hers, while Cher's performance wasn't as impressive as Glenn Close in "Fatal Attraction". Screenwriter John Patrick Shanley also wrote the play "Doubt", whose screen adaptation - starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams - he directed; he also directed the Tom Hanks comedy "Joe vs the Volcano".Anyway, it's an enjoyable movie. Just don't expect anything profound. I'm just not into romantic comedies.So yes, do snap out of it.I'd like to go inside that bakery and see them make the bread.

novagirl11 I'm finally checking off some of the classic movies I've never seen!..not a big Nicholas Cage fan, but Cher is great and I love the stereotypical Italian family!

bigverybadtom I have seen all the ads, but never saw this movie until now, wondering if it was worth the hype. Yes and no.Cher plays a young widowed bookkeeper living with her stereotypical quirky Italian extended family, when an ethnic Sicilian man who was a friend of her late husband proposes to her and she accepts, not really loving him but wanting a husband. But the man has to visit Sicily to visit his dying mother, and he wants to reconcile with his estranged brother, so he has Cher do the job. Trouble is, when Cher visits the brother, he wants her for himself...This is a romantic comedy, not just involving Cher but other family members and people they know, and we wonder how everything is going to turn out. The ending is a decent surprise at least.

eric262003 Loretta Castorini (Cher) is engaged to her longtime boyfriend Johnny Cammareri (Danny Aiello), but then has to leave for Italy to tend to his ailing mother. With Johnny absent, Loretta starts dating his hot tempered brother Ronny (Nicolas Cage). Aside from that a taboo relationship runs rampant in Loretta's Italian-American household with the exception of her grandfather and the four dogs if you count them as family.The winner of three Academy Awards and Cher was among one of them. In the finicky world of the Academy Award judges who have had their biases in the past when it came to selecting those they feel deserve Oscar recognition, the committee seemed to have twenty smiles on their faces for a film like this one that could've been easily snubbed by today's standards. I guess they liked the idea that "Moonstruck" was saturated with Italian characters that are not linked to any underworld associations. It also seems that the average age group of characters featured in here seems to be over the age of 60. Elder performers in supporting roles seems like a rarity when the movie industry caters more towards younger performers getting more exposure. This is one contributing factor why this movie stands out.The women characters Loretta and her mother Rose (Oscar winner Olympia Dukakis) are the true leaders in their respected households and in their respected relationships. It also helps that the performers are not strangers to one another so non-verbal poses are all the more effective and the dialogue within them run smoothly.Even though this movie may have given Cher tons of accolades in her performance, it didn't transform into a megastar here. Her break came with the 1985 film "Mask" which she was badly snubbed by the Oscars. Cher must've had a ten foot smile when she read the script and would've been payed cheap to play this role, let alone winning an Academy Award for her role.The real breakout star here is Nicolas Cage. Along with "Raising Arizona" which came out in 1987 as well, truly shows that Cage's specialty is his knack for comedy. His comic timing is spot on and his widened eyes are effective, we see his gift displayed in these types of films. And sure he still continues making lousy action flicks, it's comedy that really exhibits the actor that Cage is and what he could accomplish.Some of the best scenes in "Moonstruck" involve around Ronny Cammareri. When Loretta interrogates Ronny about his estranged relationship with his brother, Ronny relinquishes an unexpected emotional outburst. Later we see Ronny buttoned up for the opera a sign where romance is more welcomed than reality.The opera is a form of acting where the voice is the centerpiece of the theatre than the action. It's like giving skilled artisans colouring pencils and activity books and to tell them they can't surpass the segregated lines like the book tells them to. Cage's acting never goes outside the lines once here.The subject of infidelity comes across frequently here in "Moonstruck". The uneven account about the infidelity depicted here is that Loretta can get away with it is for her love for Ronny than she is to Johnny. But Rose's husband and Loretta's father Cosmo (Vincent Gardenia) was questioned with non-approval after quietly being with another woman behind her back even though there was never any signs of engaging in intercourse. But Rose still loves Cosmo and their loyalty to each other is what really matters. This is cleverly crafted romantic story with a great cast and an excellent script.