Moonlight and Valentino
Moonlight and Valentino is a 1995 comedy-drama film directed by David Anspaugh starring Elizabeth Perkins, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kathleen Turner, Whoopi Goldberg and Jon Bon Jovi. The screenplay, by Ellen Simon, is based on her semi-autobiographical play of the same title, written after the death of her husband.
Plot
Rebecca Lott is a thirtysomething poetry teacher who is widowed when her husband is killed while jogging. Helping her cope with her grief is a support system consisting of her sister Lucy Trager, a chain-smoker still trying to deal with their mother's death from cancer fourteen years earlier; her best friend Sylvie Morrow, who is trapped in an unhappy marriage to Paul; and her former stepmother Alberta Russell, a high-powered Wall Street executive so caught up in the financial world she has difficulty relating to anyone not involved with it. Romance finds its way back into Rebecca's life when a flirtatious handsome younger man hired to paint the house takes an interest in her, and his presence affects the other women as well.
More details
| author | Ellen Simon |
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| director | David Anspaugh |
| editor | David Rosenbloom |
| genre | comedy-drama |
| keywords | best friend chain smoking flirt flirtatious healing process help jog kill poetry teacher thirtysomething trap unhappy marriage wall street widow |
| musicBy | Howard Shore |
| producer | Alison Owen Eric Fellner Tim Bevan |
| productionCompany | PolyGram Filmed Entertainment Working Title Films |
| publisher | BBFC Gramercy Pictures |
| theme | female buddy |