Author Yvonne Tasker, in her book "Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema" (2002), notes that Cher's film roles often mirrors her public image as a rebellious, sexually autonomous, and self-made woman. In her films, she recurrently serves as a social intermediary to disenfranchised male characters, such as Eric Stoltz's Craniodiaphyseal dysplasia victim in "Mask" (1985), Liam Neeson's mute homeless veteran in "Suspect" (1987), and Nicolas Cage's socially isolated baker with a wooden hand in "Moonstruck" (1987). Film critic Kathleen Rowe wrote of "Moonstruck" that the depiction of Cher's character as "a 'woman on top' enhanced by the unruly star persona Cher brings to the part'".