Moonstruck: Cher's 1987 classic is bizarre, hopelessly romantic and yet somehow entirely plausible

Cher’s Oscar-winning turn falling for an unsettlingly charismatic Nicolas Cage is a glorious contribution to the romantic comedy canon

In Moonstruck, a 1987 romantic comedy set in Brooklyn, Loretta Castorini (Cher) explains to Ronny Cammareri (an unsettlingly charismatic 23-year-old Nicolas Cage) that he’s a wolf.

Ronny lost his hand in a bread-slicer incident that he blames on his brother Johnny, Loretta’s fiance. The brothers haven’t spoken since the accident, five years earlier, which caused Ronny’s own fiancee to leave him for another man. Now Loretta has been sent to convince Ronny to come to the wedding of his brother.

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