Moonstruck

(Norman Jewison, US 1987, 102 min., 35mm)

Holidays. Is it love that drives us crazy, or the moon? Brooklyn widow Loretta (Cher), long lovelorn after her first cursed marriage, is ready to try again with likable Johnny. Ronny (Nicholas Cage), one-handed baker and opera aficionado with a knife to grind, pursues his brother's fiancée with lupine ferocity. Cher brings home the Oscar and Cage shines brilliantly in this passionate comedy, one of the quintessential feel-good classics of the eighties, ripe for rediscovery thirty years after its premiere. Members admitted free.