Moonstruck

DVD 2020

An enchanting romantic comedy that brought together a flawless ensemble cast for a tender and boisterously funny look at a multigenerational Italian American family in Brooklyn, wrestling with the complexities of love and marriage at every stage of life. At the center of it all is Loretta, an unlucky-in-love bookkeeper whose feelings about her engagement to the staid Johnny are thrown into question after she meets his hot-blooded brother, Ronny,...

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Man-woman relationships New York (State) New York Fiction

Triangles (Interpersonal relations) Fiction

Widows New York (State) New York Fiction

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Comedy films Feature films Fiction Romantic comedy films Video recordings for the hearing impaired

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Criterion collection Criterion collection ; 1056 Criterion collection ; 1056 DVD

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ISBN:

9781681437811

Edition:

Two-DVD Special edition

Description:

2 videodiscs (102 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches
polychrome
digital
optical
surround
Dolby Digital 5.1
wide screen
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1

Target Audience Note:

Canadian Home Video Rating: PG
MPAA rating: PG

Notes:

Title from container
Originally released as a motion picture in 1987
Special features: Audio commentary from 1998 featuring Jewison, actor Cher, and screenwriter John Patrick Shanley ; Introduction from 2013 featuring Cher ; New interview with Shanley ; New interview with scholar Stefano Albertini about the opera in the film ; Interviews from 1987 with Cher, Jewison, and actors Nicolas Cage, Vincent Gardenia, and Olympia Dukakis ; Interview from 2002 with actor Danny Aiello ; Interview from 1989 with Shanley about screenwriting and developing Moonstruck ; At the Heart of an Italian Family, a 2006 program about the making of the film ; The Music of "Moonstruck," a 2006 program featuring interviews with Jewison and composer Dick Hyman ; Trailer
Directed by Norman Jewison ; written by John Patrick Shanley ; producers, Norman Jewison, Patrick J. Palmer ; music by Dick Hyman ; cinematography by David Watkin ; editing by Lou Lombardo
Cher, Nicolas Cage, Danny Aiello, Olympia Dukakis, Vincent Gardenia
Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH)
DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1
For private home use only
Audio track in English, captions in English

Control Number:

3009020

UPC:

715515253017

Other Authors:

Aiello, Danny, 1933-2019, actor
Cage, Nicolas, 1965- actor
Cher, 1946- actor
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher
Jewison, Norman, 1926-2024, film director, film producer

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