Moonstruck | | Cast : | Cher, Nicolas Cage, Olympia Dukakis, Danny Aiello | | Director : | Norman Jewison | | Studio : | Mgm/Ua Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, AC-3, Dolby | | Released Date : | December 18, 1987 | | DVD Released Date : | November 13, 2001 | | Language : | Unknown (Dubbed), English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 10, 2005 | | Summary | one of my fav movies! | Content
 | I love this movie. i'm not usually a Cher fan, but she is fabulous in this one. Nicholas Cage is soooooo cool, i think this was one of the first films i saw him in, before he went on to be a mega star.
Dukakas was wonderful, as were the parents and aunts & uncles. the fiancé's mother - what a hoot! the moon, the wandering husband, the opera, the bank deposit, the kitchen table, the arm, the slap!
classic good. when Cher slaps Nicholas and says "Snap out of it!" just classic. the conversations, the lines, oh so good! mom to grandpa "Old man,if you give one more piece of my food to those dogs, i'll kick you till you're dead." love it!
my dear Norman even got a kick out of it, and that says a lot! Mr. CIA tough, ultra intelligent guy - was laughing and wiped away a tear... he thinks i didn't see that!
i think i'll go watch it again. i love it so much. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 23, 2005 | | Summary | Authentically Italian! | Content
| This movie is on my list of all-time favorites so I was delighted when my son recently bought it for me on DVD. It is the humorous and delightful love story of Loretta Castorini, a young Italian widow who lives with her parents in Brooklyn, and Ronnie Camarerie, owner of Camarerie Brothers Bakery and by chance the brother of Loretta's fiancee. How these two individuals come together and the interplay between them and all the members of Loretta's large and often interfering Italian family makes for many hilarious moments.
This movie is especially heartwarming as it depicts an Italian-American family better than any movie I have ever seen. I am a member of a large Italian family and I can vouch for its authenticity! The Castorini home even reminded me of many of those of my Italian relatives, filled with much good food and good conversation as well as memories of love and family. This is truly a wonderful movie experience!
This DVD version features an option to watch the movie while listening to a voice over by director Norman Jewison, writer John Patrick Shanley and lead actress Cher. I thoroughly enjoyed this feature, as each added amusing anecdotes about the filming of the movie, as well as their own input about various scenes and information about the other actors. |
| Rating | | | Date | April 20, 2005 | | Summary | A Magnificent Love Story | Content
| I have never been a big Cher fan. I never particularly thought she was talented nor did I think she was very pretty. This film changed my mind when I first saw it in the theater years ago. She cleanup up nice.
Nicolas Cage also does an outstanding job as the obsessive man in love with his brother's fiance (Cher) who he first met when she came by to invite him to the wedding. The problem is that she finds that she loves him and not her fiance. Things get even more mixed up when it turns out that her dad is running around and so is her mom.
This is a love story but it is also a comedy. On both levels it succeeds. It is a movie to watch in the arms of someone you love. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 25, 2005 | | Summary | It's amore | Content
| 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). |
| Rating | | | Date | February 03, 2005 | | Summary | This DVD is not "Pan&Scan", however... | Content
| Although the theatrical aspect ratio of this movie was 1.85:1, while the DVD aspect ratio is 4:3, this is not a "Pan&Scan" DVD. In other words, almost none of the original theatrical image has been removed for exhibition on a 4:3 television screen. The film negative aspect ratio was 1.37:1 (almost 4:3), and for theatrical exhibition, the image was "matted" (partially covered from the top down and bottom up) to produce a 1.85:1 image. For exhibition on a 4:3 television screen, the "mattes" have simply been removed. So the DVD exhibition actually shows 31.4 percent more image than the theatrical exhibition. The movie was likely filmed this way so that the theatrical image wouldn't be butchered on television by the "Pan&Scan" process, and because the filmmakers didn't foresee the current state of the home video market, where consumers prefer movies presented in their theatrical aspect ratio, rather than in a ratio in which the image will fill up their 4:3 television screen (if there is a difference). This DVD presents the movie in the aspect ratio in which the filmmakers wanted people to see it on a 4:3 television, but it does not present the movie in the aspect ratio in which the filmmakers wanted people to see it in a movie theater (for that, the DVD would have to present the movie in a "matted widescreen" format). If you're okay with that, enjoy!
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