The Movie Moonstruck

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One’s life and redemption of old age is shown through the classic and popular film Moonstruck which was released in 1987 as a romantic comedy film directed by Norman Jewison. The movie was released on December 18, 1987, achieving positive reviews from movie critics all over the world. The film went on to gross over $80,000,000 at the box office, making it one of the highest grossing films of that year. The film was nominated for six Oscars at the 60th Academy Awards, winning three for Best Original Screenplay, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actress (Wikipedia). This popular movie deals with aspects of love, family and love in later life as well as the importance of their family. It is a romantic comedy focusing on a New York family that hails from Italy. It is focused on two central subplots relating to the fear of death and love in the later years.

Moonstruck, is not only a humorous, moving and charming romance that intertwines three love stories together due to a night of a full moon, but it also gives a correct emphasizing example of how the wife of an Italian household is a matriarch. Bad luck seems to linger amongst the Castorini family and Cammareri which seems to guide the movie into a romantic and mysterious comedy that takes place in. Loretta Castorini, a thirty-seven year old widow, lives at home with her parents and is a book keeper. She believes that having gotten married at City Hall with her late husband, who was struck and killed by a bus, has cursed her. Now that Loretta’s current boyfriend has proposed, she has decided to marry him because he is nice and she would like to do it the correct way this time. During the scene of the proposal Johnny did not do it the traditional way until Loretta had to guid...

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...affairs is not a recent activity that just started, it has been around for decades. Even coming from the Castorini family which seems like a very traditional old school Italian family things like love in the later years continuously occur.

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