"Everything seems like nothing to me now, 'cause I want you in my bed. I don't care if I burn in hell. I don't care if you burn in hell. The past and the future is a joke to me now. I see that they're nothing. I see they ain't here. The only thing that's here is you - and me."

Join us at the Rio Theatre on Thursday, February 8 as we pay tribute to the late, great Canadian filmmaker Norman Jewison with a screening of his Oscar-winning 1987 romantic comedy MOONSTRUCK.

Released in 1987, audience favourite 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, February 8
Doors 6:15 pm | Movie 6:45 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

Why not make it a  Nicolas Cage Valentine's-ish Double Feature with WILD AT HEART at 9:15 pm for one sweet price here: https://riotheatretickets.ca/events/29175-double-feature-moonstruck-wild-at-heart

MOONSTRUCK (Norman Jewison, 1987 / 102 mins / PG) No sooner does Italian-American widow Loretta accept a marriage proposal from her doltish boyfriend, Johnny, than she finds herself falling for his younger brother, Ronny. She tries to resist, but Ronny lost his hand in an accident he blames on his brother, and has no scruples about aggressively pursuing her while Johnny is out of the country. As Loretta falls deeper in love, she comes to learn that she's not the only one in her family with a secret romance.