Product: Moonstruck (1987)
Rating: 4.0
It's amore
Kind of an old story: woman meets man who rescues her from marrying the wrong guy by getting her to fall in love with him. Sometimes the roles are reversed, as in "Holiday," for example. Here Loretta (Cher) is engaged to marry stick-in-the-mud Johnny (Danny Aiello) when, by chance, she meets his brother Ronny (Nicholas Cage); they hit it off, fall in love, and decide to get married: Cage's gain and Aiello's loss. It's done from an Italian perspective with billowing emotions and even an opera thrown in, and it's done very well. Highly enjoyable (though "Holiday" was better).