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| ACTORS: | Cher, Nicolas Cage, Olympia Dukakis, Danny Aiello |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Norman Jewison |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 18 December, 1987 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Mgm/Ua Studios |
| MPAA RATING: | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned, AC-3, Dolby |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-comedy |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 027616626523 |
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Customer Reviews of Moonstruck
A Magnificent Love Story I have never been a big Cher fan. I never particularly thought she was talented nor did I think she was very pretty. This film changed my mind when I first saw it in the theater years ago. She cleanup up nice. <
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>Nicolas Cage also does an outstanding job as the obsessive man in love with his brother's fiance (Cher) who he first met when she came by to invite him to the wedding. The problem is that she finds that she loves him and not her fiance. Things get even more mixed up when it turns out that her dad is running around and so is her mom. <
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>This is a love story but it is also a comedy. On both levels it succeeds. It is a movie to watch in the arms of someone you love.
It's amore
Kind of an old story: woman meets man who rescues her from marrying the wrong guy by getting her to fall in love with him. Sometimes the roles are reversed, as in "Holiday," for example. Here Loretta (Cher) is engaged to marry stick-in-the-mud Johnny (Danny Aiello) when, by chance, she meets his brother Ronny (Nicholas Cage); they hit it off, fall in love, and decide to get married: Cage's gain and Aiello's loss. It's done from an Italian perspective with billowing emotions and even an opera thrown in, and it's done very well. Highly enjoyable (though "Holiday" was better).
This DVD is not "Pan&Scan", however...
Although the theatrical aspect ratio of this movie was 1.85:1, while the DVD aspect ratio is 4:3, this is not a "Pan&Scan" DVD. In other words, almost none of the original theatrical image has been removed for exhibition on a 4:3 television screen. The film negative aspect ratio was 1.37:1 (almost 4:3), and for theatrical exhibition, the image was "matted" (partially covered from the top down and bottom up) to produce a 1.85:1 image. For exhibition on a 4:3 television screen, the "mattes" have simply been removed. So the DVD exhibition actually shows 31.4 percent more image than the theatrical exhibition. The movie was likely filmed this way so that the theatrical image wouldn't be butchered on television by the "Pan&Scan" process, and because the filmmakers didn't foresee the current state of the home video market, where consumers prefer movies presented in their theatrical aspect ratio, rather than in a ratio in which the image will fill up their 4:3 television screen (if there is a difference). This DVD presents the movie in the aspect ratio in which the filmmakers wanted people to see it on a 4:3 television, but it does not present the movie in the aspect ratio in which the filmmakers wanted people to see it in a movie theater (for that, the DVD would have to present the movie in a "matted widescreen" format). If you're okay with that, enjoy!
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