Product: Moonstruck (1987)
Rating: 5.0
Favorite movie of all time
I absolutely adore this movie. Every time I see this movie I laugh out loud it is so funny. I love the grandfather and his five dogs who howl at the moon mainly because I am a huge dog lover. Actually, in some ways the grandfather is my favorite character, he is only around for comic relief, but he really makes me laugh almost every time he is in a scene, especially in a very tense moment at almost the very end of the movie where no one is talking, and he says: "Someone tell a joke." I love how this movie is like a snapshot of a traditional type Italian family. Italian is a beautiful sounding language and, even though I have almost no idea what the words mean, I love listening to the characters talk in Italian. Luna is a much more beautiful sounding word than moon. I love Olymphia Dukakis in the role of the mother; she is just wonderful. Nicholas Cage is a mad man in this movie-but his character is hilarious. My favorite scene with him is after the opera where he is trying to convince Loretta that she should chose him over his brother. The arguments that he uses are both logical and illogical at the same time. I love it when Loretta (Cher) describes Ronny (Cage) as the wolf who chewed off his own hand to escape the trap of loving the wrong woman--because Ronny is a very wolfish-like character. The only other movie I have seen with Cher in it is Mask. She did just as good, if not better, in this comedic role as she did in her dramatic role in Mask. This really is my all time favorite movie, every time I watch it I feel like I love it more than I did the last time I watched it.