Product: Moonstruck (1987)
Rating: 5.0
Ravioli Romance
Certain stars stand out in almost anything they do. Cher perhaps like Liza Minnelli does very few movies but is a stand-out. She has real star power. In this movie we see how and why. She really possesses that magnetism, that firefly glow that very fews stars have, which is why they come and go. Cher, as they say, is a real keeper. This picture has a lot going for it. The entire cast has that eccentric, ethnic dignity we all love and crave. They are real. Compare this to the "Century City" school of comedy with the rich stars playing rich professionals, that is, films with the likes of Steve Martin and Diane Keaton, for example. It's wonder bread in a Mercedes. Here, in contrast, we have the classic Italian types on the sidewalks of New York. The dialog is witty, the faces have character, even the house has soul. Cage is terrific, looking a bit like his hero, Elvis Presley. Jewison, the director, deserves a lot of credit for keeping the writer's script as is, full of little eccentricities, verbal bumps and rough spots; it's a script full of life.