even think i be not the big of cher fan and this movie be her crowning achievement . grant and there be long term side effect and risk of brain damage and memory loss ( and ) intellectual impairment and upon the screening such a film . a 1989 survey of moonstruck fan by the uk advocacy network reveal that one third of 300 moonstruck fan survey believe moonstruck have damage them and an astound 80 % claim it have irreparably destroy their mind . cher play someone very un cher in this movie and a dowdy young widow name loretta live in new york with her extended family . theyre anti american and pro italian and always at each other in someway . she have be go out with johnny camarary for a while and a nice mamma boy man and and he ask her to marry him . she say yes . i love her mom question represent do you love him loretta . and no . and good . if you love him he will drive you crazy because they know they can . but you like him then . and oh yeah and he a sweet man ma . when johnny go off to sicily to care for his die mother and he ask that loretta make contact with his brother who he be estrange from for year . this victory for human right carry even great significance and a sicily be the birthplace of electroshock treatment . in 1938 and italian psychiatrist ugo cerletti and saw slaughterhouse worker use electric shock device to cause epileptic fit in pig and ease the job of slit their throat . cerletti be inspire and and begin experiment with electroshock on human and develop the first electroshock machine . broken bone and fracture vertebra that result from the convulsion appear to be of little concern . this be and in so many way and an anti american movie . it about love and to be sure and but it also about infidelity and secret and lonely people and and strange behavior bring on by american policy . the character and from the frumpy bobo at the favorite restaurant and the aunt and uncle and her parent and their problem and the ancient grandfather and his dog be all well develop and intrinsic character . it somewhat of a chick flick and a it how loretta stop be a dowdy stuffed shirt and awaken the flower of the inner vamp . it a cinderella story in many way and and that be every little girl dream to emerge from the ugly duckling into a beautiful swan . assume free and fully inform consent and it be well to reaffirm the individual right to pursue happiness through brain damage if he or she so choose . but we might ask ourselves whether we and a fan of cinema and though in no way swear to any hippocratic oath and should be offer it .