If “Moonstruck” has a clear through line, it is about things that are wrong getting made right, a winding process that often involves committing some new wrongs along the way.
I’ve never hit on a way of describing “Moonstruck” as a film that’s genuinely good. Usually, I choose as its selling point its strangeness: It stars Cher and Nicolas Cage! It’s a romantic comedy in which people run around talking about wolves and death! What more could you want? Once, during an especially fevered pitch, I ended up acting out the scene where Cage bellows to a lovestruck assistant, “Bring me the big knife! I’m gonna cut my throat!” It’s better when he does it.
The plot goes something like this: Loretta Castorini , a Brooklyn widow in her late thirties, has agreed to marry her casual beau, Johnny Cammareri. She doesn’t love him, but he’s “a sweet man.” A tortured interaction near the beginning of the film, in which Loretta instructs Johnny on how to properly propose to her, indicates that Johnny may not be much in love with Loretta either. But his mother’s dying, and somebody has to take care of him.
The bad blood between the Cammareri brothers concerns an accident that took place five years prior. Johnny caused Ronny to look the wrong way while slicing some bread; Ronny cut off his own hand. Subsequently, his fiancée left him. Ronny has brooded on this, basically without ceasing, since it happened. One of Cage’s most famous lines in the movie comes when Ronny recites the story of his wound to an unimpressed Loretta.
It is from this gap that “Moonstruck” mines its most precious material. There’s nothing wrong with being a wolf; most of us are at least a little lupine. But a wolf that doesn’t know it’s a wolf is dangerous: it’s then that people, and maybe even the wolf, can get hurt. If you’re in pain, you can howl at the moon. But to cover up your pain with cheap distraction—a halfhearted engagement, a silly grudge—is only to inflame the wound.
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