In her Academy Award-winning role, Cher, while waiting for her timid fiancé to decide between her and his mother, falls in love with her fiancé’s estranged brother (Nicolas Cage), a bakery worker with a love of opera and life. Supporting actress Olympia Dukakis and screenwriter John Patrick Shanley also won Oscars for this comedy classic.
Moonstruck
This film is part of the Love Me Tender: Big Screen Romances series.
Moonstruck
1987. 102 m. Norman Jewison. Park Circus. US. English/Italian/Latin. Rated PG.
Tickets: $11 (members), $16 (nonmembers)
"A great big beautiful valentine of a movie, an intoxicating romantic comedy set beneath the biggest, brightest Christmas moon you ever saw. It's a monster moon, a Moby Dick of a moon, whose radiance fills the winter sky and every cranny of this joyous love story."
This film is part of the Love Me Tender: Big Screen Romances series.
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