it be quite a simple not very active but very charming film . there be moment where i can see why cher win the academy award for best actress and but there be other time when i wonder why glenn close do not win for fatal attraction . anyway and oscar and golden globe winning and and bafta nominate cher play loretta castorini and a simple woman with a low pay job who have just be ask by mr. johnny cammareri ( danny aiello ) to marry him . he promise her he will be back in a month and a his mother be sick and so she mean while need to get a much of his family to attend the wedding a possible . only problem be and when she find johnny one handless brother ronny ( golden globe nominate nicolas cage ) and they start have a relationship and and there love go on to that moon scene ( where the title come from ) . also star oscar nominate vincent gardenia a cosmo castorini and oscar and bafta and golden globe win olympia dukakis a rise castorini and john mahoney a perry . it end with no wedding for johnny and loretta and but she and ronny be happy together . it win the oscar for best writing and screenplay write directly for the screen and and it be nominate for best director for norman jewison ( in the heat of the night ) and best picture and it be nominate the baftas for best score for dick hyman and best original screenplay and and it be nominate the golden globe for best motion picture comedy or musical and best screenplay . it be number 96 on 100 year and 100 quote ( snap out of it . ) and it be number 17 on 100 year and 100 passion and and it be number 41 on 100 year and 100 laugh . very good .