Moonstruck (the final film from the Year of Love series)

A full moon, a New York City night, and love and music in the air . . . One of the most enchanting romantic comedies of all time assembles 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 a radiant Cher as Loretta, an unlucky-in-love bookkeeper whose feelings about her engagement to the staid Johnny (Danny Aiello) are thrown into question after she meets his hot-blooded brother, Ronny (Nicolas Cage), and one night at the opera changes everything. Winner of the Academy Awards for best actress (Cher), supporting actress (Olympia Dukakis), and original screenplay (by playwright John Patrick Shanley), this modern-day fairy tale is swept along on passionate Puccini melodies, and directed by master storyteller Norman Jewison with the heightened emotion to match.

YEAR OF LOVE:

In 2024, we are falling in love with a lineup of the best romance films. Beginning on Valentine's Day, we will screen one film a month about love. Tales of heartbreak, screwball comedies, a basketball movie, campy classics, and sensuous period dramas are bound to get your heart stirring in what is destined to be our most romantic year yet.

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