Moonstruck 🌕

Today's movie is a romantic comedy streaming on Prime Video

🎬 Happy Thursday! I hope you’re hanging in there and this newsletter is making it a little easier on you. Another Substack newsletter you might like that could help while you’re self-quarantining is Do You Like Apples. Every Friday, they recommend a few themed movies available for streaming (more movies!) — sign up and follow them on Twitter (they’re nice people)!

Today’s recommendation is for Moonstruck (1987), streaming on Prime Video, a classic romantic-comedy that won Cher an Oscar and has been a blind spot for me until now.

Directed by John Patrick Shanley // ⏱ 102 mins // 🎭 Romantic Comedy

Here’s what it’s about:

Loretta Castorini (Cher) is a widowed Italian-American bookkeeper who accepts a marriage proposal from her boyfriend Johnny (Danny Aiello) even though she doesn’t love him. “Good,” her mother Rose (Olympia Dukakis) says, “when you love 'em, they drive you crazy.” However, when Johnny goes away to Italy, Loretta begins to fall for his brother Ronnie (Nicolas Cage). [Trailer