Moonstruck

MOVIE #1,149 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 09.14.23 Starting in 2020, I decided to watch & review the entire Nicolas Cage filmography in alphabetical order. This is 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔜𝔢𝔞𝔯 𝔬𝔣 ℭ𝔞𝔤𝔢 – Chapter 49. So, I plan on returning to my original YEAR OF CAGE review style: plot recap with extraneous video accompaniment. But I watched this one on vacation and took minimal notes. I honestly don’t know how I hadn’t seen it before. I think it was one of the movies I would just automatically switch if I saw it come on TV as a kid. Something about Cher scared me. Or something. IDK man. This is a goofy movie (much goofier than I’d anticipated) but I can see why it’s so beloved in the classic romcom sense. It has a great supporting cast, including Olympia Dukakis, Danny Aiello, Vincent Gardenia and John Mahoney, and it made me not forget about never forgetting about 9/11…

And the intro to Cage — thirty minutes into the movie — is an all-timer performance…


Just classic 80s Cage here, and even though his NY accent is kinda bad, it definitely works. Enjoyed this one (my second Jewison Joint, after F.I.S.T.) for what it is, which is totally fine. But it is kinda funny that it won 3 Oscars and was nominated for 6!

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Moonstruck is a 1987 American romantic comedy-drama film directed and co-produced by Norman Jewison, written by John Patrick Shanley, and starring Cher, Nicolas Cage, Danny Aiello, Olympia Dukakis, and Vincent Gardenia. The film follows Loretta Castorini, a widowed Italian-American woman who falls in love with her fiancé's hot-tempered, estranged younger brother.It was released on December 18, 1987.