Moonstruck
Life. Family. Love.
Moonstruck (1987)
Timing:
1:42 (102 min)
6.845/10
1063
1063
7.379/10
9914
9914
7.2/10
78000
78000
Country
Genre
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Budget
$15 000 000
Revenue
$80 640 528
Director
Actors
Cher, Nicolas Cage, Vincent Gardenia, Olympia Dukakis, Danny Aiello, Julie Bovasso, John Mahoney, Louis Guss, Feodor Chaliapin Jr., Anita Gillette
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Norman Jewison, Patrick J. Palmer
Operator
David Watkin
Composer
Dick Hyman
Artist
Audition
Howard Feuer
Editing
Lou Lombardo
All team (124)
All team (124)
Short description
37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts a marriage proposal from her boyfriend Johnny, even though she doesn't love him. When she meets his estranged younger brother Ronny, an emotional and passionate man, she finds herself drawn to him. She tries to resist, but Ronny, who blames his brother for the loss of his hand, has no scruples about aggressively pursuing her while Johnny is out of the country. As Loretta falls for Ronny, she learns that she's not the only one in her family with a secret romance.
What's left behind the scenes
- Fyodor Shalyapin Jr., the son of opera singer Fyodor Shalyapin Sr., appears in a supporting role as the 'old man' in the film.
- Olympia Dukakis is only 15 years older than her on-screen daughter Cher.
- Initially, Nicolas Cage did not impress the studio executives at the audition, and they demanded that another actor be cast in the role of Ronnie. Cher insisted that Cage be cast. She even threatened to leave the project if they didn't, and the studio backed down.
- The actors' union fined director Norman Jewison for not letting the cast go to lunch until they had rehearsed the kitchen scene. Norman later claimed that the kitchen scene was the most difficult he had ever filmed. Jewison released the crew and rehearsed the scene with the actors as if they were going to perform it on stage. Only after the scene was perfected to his satisfaction did the director give the go-ahead for filming.
- Anne Bancroft (1931-2005) or Maureen Stapleton (1925-2006) were considered for the role of the heroine's mother, but that would have been too expensive for the film's budget. That's when Olympia Dukakis (1931-2021) was remembered, and she ultimately played the part.
- Fyodor Shalyapin Jr., the son of opera singer Fyodor Shalyapin Sr., appears in a minor role as the “old man” in the film.
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