Word: cherly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MOONSTRUCK is possibly Cher at her best. Possibly because Cher is playing herself--a confused, slightly idiotic but strikingly attractive woman who is not exactly sure what she wants to do with her life...
...Cher plays a New York Italian woman who decides to get married for the second time. With her first hubby. she tells us, it was a case of true love but then he was run over by a bus. The happy marriage having ended seven years earlier, Cher's character, Loretta, decides she needs the security of a new marriage. This, apparently, is how the modern woman acts...
...Cher decides to stick with marrying Johnny, and to resolve her guilt she goes to confessional. "Pray for me, father, for I have sinned," she tells the priest, adding as casually as she might recite a shopping list that she has twice taken the Lord's name in vain, slept with the brother of her fiance, and once knocked someone over by accident. The priest simply tells her to say two rosaries...
...hard to imagine Cher as an Italian, but she manages to pull it off. She also proves capable of entering into the kind of family politics which large families require. And Loretta's family is stereotypically Italian, complete with a grandfather who gives the food his daughter-in-law cooks to his pack of dogs...
...devious and inevitable. As photographed by David Watkin (Out of Africa), Moonstruck is as pristine and fanciful as Lady and the Tramp. As directed by Norman Jewison (A Soldier's Story), it moves with the crack of sexual friction. Jewison has also put together a terrific ensemble of actors. Cher, rag-dolled up in heavy Sicilian eyebrows, relaxes into her most engaging movie role. And Cage has a great time segueing from Stanley Kowalski, absentmindedly scratching himself with his prosthesis, into a Brooklyn Barrymore. Moonstruck proves there is life in movie comedy yet. Enough, at least, to survive till next...