“Snap out of it!”

We’re kicking off Cagefest – our (unofficial) Nicolas Cage Film Fest (aka, NIFF), a solid 5 days’ worth of our fave performances from one of our all-time favourite contemporary actors – with Norman Jewison‘s MOONSTRUCK on Thursday, October 1.

This 1987 romantic-comedy features Cher (in what may be her best onscreen performance, and the role that won her a Best Actress Oscar) in a revelatory turn as the dowdy, frumpy, and all outta luck Italian-American widow Loretta, who accepts a marriage proposal from her doltish boyfriend, Johnny (Danny Aiello), a man she does not love, before managing to somehow fall head-over-heels for his younger brother, Ronny (Nicolas Cage, never better). Though Loretta tries to resist his “wolfish” charms, Ronny (who lost his hand in an accident he blames on his brother, and as a result has no love for him) pursues her while Johnny is out of the country dealing with their ailing mother in Italy. As Loretta begins to fall hard for Ronny, she blossoms into a new woman, her love a catalyst for transformation – and she comes to learn that she’s not the only one in her family with a secret romance. Also starring Olympia Dukakis (who took home a Best Supporting Actress Oscar), Vincent Gardenia, John Mahoney.

“This is a movie that makes you want to sing “Boheme” and walk in the moonlight and move to Brooklyn.” (New York Daily News)

Thursday, October 1
Doors 6:00 pm | Movie 6:30 pm
Advance tickets $15 | $15 at the door

MOONSTRUCK (Norman Jewison, 1987 / 102 mins / PG) Loretta Castorini, a bookkeeper from Brooklyn, New York, finds herself in a difficult situation when she falls for the brother of the man she has agreed to marry.