Thoughts on "Moonstruck"

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I just watched the older movie “Moonstruck” (Cher and Nicholas Cage) again yesterday. If this is your favorite movie or something, don’t keep reading this post! 😃 Anyway, I got a kick out of the Catholic “props” in the movie (Loretta going to confession, that the and her mom both wore a veil in church, the priest using Latin for the absolution in the confessional, etc) the characters didn’t seem real – they themselves were just New York Italian caricatures. Anybody agree - disagree? I get it that’s it’s really just a rom-com, it’s just that the setting was the best part of the movie.
 
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I think you mean “Moonstruck”. “Moonlighting” was the TV series with Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis…

As for “characters don’t seem real”, actually they did seem real. I’ve known people who were a lot like that. They also didn’t think of themselves as caricatures. I think the movie should probably have been set back in the 1960s though because all the things you mention would have been more common then. Especially in New York.
 
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Thanks – of course I did mean Moonstruck, not Moonlighting.
When I meant the characters didn’t seem real, I meant their emotions don’t seem to run very deep. Everyone just seemed oh so blase and glib. Lots of Mediterranean-style shouting, but no depth.
 
I thought the situation with the cheating husband of Olympia Dukakis was portrayed very deeply. I have thought of that subplot often since the movie came out. It reminded me a bit of my own relatives, although since they were Irish they would have made more black humor jokes.
 
I love that movie. The best scenes were whenever the family was around the table. Everybody talking at once. Loud Iitalian American New Yorkers. Seemed pretty real and normal to me. 🙂 Sunday at Grandma’s house.
 
I saw it at the movies when it first came out.

I’ve watched it very recently. I enjoy it as a film.

One little thing of the film I find impossible.

When the grandfather serves his dinner to his dogs, Olympia Dukakis says to him, “old man if you give another plate of my food to those dogs I’ll kick you till you’re dead!”

I don’t think that would be permitted in an Italian household!
 
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