61 Moonstruck Trivia Questions & Answers

Answer: She is a freelance bookkeeper.

A lonely woman and widowed, Loretta, played by Cher, thinks she has no chance at happiness. She lives with her parents. She does the books for family and others in NYC. She wants love but is unwilling to open herself up to new experiences after her husband dies suddenly.

Answer: Lotte at the Sweetheart Liquor Store (Helen Hanft)

Loretta goes into the Sweetheart Liquor Store to buy a bottle of champagne, and the middle-age couple behind the counter are in middle of a discussion. She says this quote, and her husband replies, "Like a wolf, huh? You never seen a wolf in your life" and then "You know what I see in you, Lotte?" "The girl I married." She is caught off guard and blushes. Loretta smiles on her way out.

Answer: Cosmo Castorini (Vincent Gardenia)

Loretta has just accepted the wedding proposal of Johnny Cammareri (Danny Aiello) and has returned home. Her father is still up but her mother is in bed. When she asks him "You're not sleepy?" he replies with this quote.

Answer: Funeral Director Alfonso Conti

After two woman comment on how nice a body looks at a viewing, the funeral director (played by Tony Azito) pats himself on the back with this comment to his bookkeeper, Loretta Castorini (played by Cher). Meanwhile, he butters a bagel. She replies "If you're such an artistic genius, why can't you keep track of your receipts? How am I going to do your income tax?" and then "If you're an artistic genius, how come you got butter on your tie?"

Answer: A funeral home

Loretta, a widowed accountant, is trying to do the income taxes for the funeral home; she complains because the director never keeps track of his receipts.

Answer: Camareri

It's Johnny Camareri!

Answer: Johnny Cammareri (Danny Aiello)

Loretta is talking to her mother Rose in the family kitchen, when she receives a long-distance phone call from her fiancé Johnny in Palermo, Sicily. When she asks if Johnny has told his dying mother of his engagement to marry her, he replies with this quote.

Answer: Rose Castorini (Olympia Dukakis)

After Loretta breaks the news of her engagement to her father, they both go to wake up Loretta's mother Rose to tell her. After her father leaves the room, she and her mother are discussing who will pay for the wedding and if she loves him. When she asks Loretta "Do you love him, Loretta?" she adds this bit of wisdom.

Answer: Rose Castorini (Olympia Dukakis)

Loretta has broken the news to her parents that she plans to wed Johnny Cammareri (Danny Aiello), and then she and Rose are discussing who will pay for the wedding, and if she loves him. Her father Cosmo (Vincent Gardenia) leaves the discussion and starts playing the record "It Must Be Him" by Vicki Carr. He is obsessed with his own mortality ("I can't sleep any more. It's too much like death").

Answer: His pinky ring

Loretta says yes, even though she has practically had to beg him to get down on his knees ("this is a new suit!") and give her the ring("I like this ring!"). Personally, I agree with her father's characterization of him as "a big baby!"

Answer: Nicolas Cage, Johnny's brother

Ronnie and Johnny are estranged from each other because on the day of Ronnie's wedding day, years earlier, when Johnny comes to buy bread. While Ronnie is using the bread slicer he looks the wrong way and slices off his hand. Ronnie blames Johnny and Ronnie's financee leaves him for another man. In real life Nicolas Cage is related to Frances Ford Coppola.

Answer: Ronny Cammareri (Nicolas Cage)

After Ronny and Loretta's heated discussion and then night together, she says he cannot come to her wedding to Ronny's brother Johnny. He says "Alright. I will not come. Provided one thing" and says this quote. He wants Loretta to go to the opera with him, and if she does, he says he won't bother her again.

Answer: Grandpa Castorini (Feodor Chaliapin, Jr.)

Grandpa Castorini takes his five dogs out for a walk to a local cemetery and meets some other elderly men (one of their friends has just been buried). One of the men asks if Grandpa had seen the beautiful full moon the night before, and he replies with this quote.

Answer: Ronny Cammareri (Nicolas Cage)

This "threat" to commit suicide is spoken by Ronny in the basement of the Cammareri Bake Shop, to shop girl Chrissy (played by Nada Despotovich). Loretta has gone there to invite Ronny to her wedding to Ronny's brother Johnny, but Ronny blames Johnny for an accident with a bread slicer that resulted in his hand being cut off and is bitter ("I have no life. My brother Johnny took my life from me").

Answer: Palermo

She gives him gum for the plane, because it "opens up your ears"

Answer: Professor Perry (John Mahoney)

Professor Perry and one of his young female students are eating dinner together at the Grand Ticino Italian restaurant. After she says to him "I don't need some man standing above the struggle while I roll around in the mud!" and he replies "I think you like the mud and I don't," she flings a glass of water at him and walks out. The professor apologizes to customers at neighboring tables with this quote.

Answer: Loretta Castorini (Cher)

Loretta is talking to her mother Rose in the family kitchen, when she receives a long-distance phone call from her fiancée Johnny, in Palermo, Italy. When she asks if Johnny has told his mother of the engagement, he says "Not yet. I'm waiting till a moment when she's peaceful." After the phone call, Rose asks how Johnny's mother is, and Loretta replies with this quote.

Answer: Loretta Castorini (Cher)

After Ronny's outburst in the basement of the Cammareri Bake Shop, Loretta asks him to go somewhere to talk, and that somewhere turns out to be his apartment. After they talk, Ronny falls hard for Loretta and carries her to his bed. The next morning he says "I love you." Loretta realizes she could be in big trouble, slaps him twice, and tells him to "Snap out of it!"

Answer: She has put a curse on it.

The woman's sister had stolen her man years before and had just told her that she never loved him and had done it for spite ("to be strong on me"). When Loretta says she doesn't believe in curses, the woman replies "Eh! Neither do I."

Answer: "It Must be Him", by Vickie Carr

There is a reference to death in the lyrics: "It must be him or I shall die." Loretta's dad is so unhappy, he wants to die. He is guilty of cheating on his wife.

Answer: Loretta Castorini (Cher)

Loretta and Ronny have just seen the opera "La Boheme" and are discussing it as they leave the Metropolitan Opera House. Loretta says, "I didn't think she was going to die. I knew she was sick." Ronny says "She had TB" and Loretta responds with this quote.

Answer: Ronny Cammareri (Nicolas Cage)

Loretta has gone to the Cammareri Bake Shop at Johnny's request, to invite Johnny's brother Ronny to her wedding to Johnny. However, Ronny blames Johnny for an accident with a bread slicer that resulted in his hand being cut off and is bitter. He feels "I have no life. My brother Johnny took my life from me." His outburst includes this quote.