History Trivia / Moonstruck

* OldShame: Creator/DannyAiello didn't like his role as Johnny, whom he thought was wimpy.

* FakeNationality: The Italian-American Castorini family includes Music/{{Cher}} (Armenian-American), Creator/OlympiaDukakis (Greek-American), and Feodor Chaliapin (Russian).

* CreatorsFavorite: Creator/NormanJewison considers it his best film.

* UsefulNotes/AFIS100YearsSeries:
** AFIS100Years100Laughs: #41
** AFIS100Years100Passions: #17
** AFIS100Years100MovieQuotes:
*** #90, "Snap out of it!"
** AFIS10Top10:
*** #8, Romantic Comedy

* AFIS100YearsSeries:

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Shanley initially wrote the characters as Irish, but decided to make them Italian to make it less of an AuthorAvatar script.

* FakeNationality: The Italian-American Castorini family includes Music/{{Cher}} (Armenian-American), Olympia Dukakis (Greek-American), and Feodor Chaliapin (Russian).

* OldShame: Creator/DannyAiello still doesn't like his role as Johnny, whom he thought was wimpy.
* PlayingGertrude: Creator/OlympiaDukakis and Music/{{Cher}} play mother and daughter, but are just under 15 years apart in age. Similarly, Feodor Chaliapin Jr. and Vincent Gardenia play father and son but are only 14 years apart in age.
* RetroactiveRecognition: [[Series/{{Frasier}} Martin Crane]] (or, if you prefer, [[Film/SayAnything Jim Court]]) plays the professor who is [[RunningGag always getting drinks thrown in his face at the restaurant]] (and whom Rose has dinner with once).

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Shanley initially wrote the characters as Irish, but decided to make them Italian to make it less of an AuthorAvatar script.

* OldShame: Danny Aiello still doesn't like his role as Johnny, whom he thought was wimpy.
* PlayingGertrude: Olympia Dukakis and Cher play mother and daughter, but are just under 15 years apart in age. Similarly, Feodor Chaliapin Jr. and Vincent Gardenia play father and son but are only 14 years apart in age.

* RetroactiveRecognition: [[Series/{{Frasier}} Martin Crane]] (or, if you prefer, [[Film/SayAnything Jim Court]] plays the professor who is [[RunningGag always getting drinks thrown in his face at the restaurant]] (and whom Rose has dinner with once).

* PlayingGetrude: Olympia Dukakis and Cher play mother and daughter, but are just under 15 years apart in age. Similarly, Feodor Chaliapin Jr. and Vincent Gardenia play father and son but are only 14 years apart in age.

* AFIS100Years100Laughs: #41
* AFIS100Years100Passions: #17
* AFIS100Years100MovieQuotes:
** #90, "Snap out of it!"
* AFIS10Top10:
** #8, Romantic Comedy

* HeyItsThatGuy:
** [[VarietyShow Sonny's Better Half]] is engaged to [[DoTheRightThing Sal]], but falls for [[Film/KickAss Big Daddy]], while her father [[Film/LittleShopOfHorrors Mr. Mushnik]] is having an affair and her mother [[Film/LookWhosTalking Rosie]] has dinner with [[Series/{{Frasier}} Marty Crane]].
** The bitter old woman at the airport was also a OneSceneWonder in ''Film/BroadwayDannyRose'' as a Mafia matriarch.

** [[VarietyShow Sonny's Better Half]] is engaged to [[DoTheRightThing Sal]], but falls for [[Film/KickAss Big Daddy]], while her father [[Film/LittleShopOfHorrors Mr. Mushnik]] is having an affair and her mother [[LookWhosTalking Rosie]] has dinner with [[{{Frasier}} Marty Crane]].

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[VarietyShow Sonny's Better Half]] is engaged to [[DoTheRightThing Sal]], but falls for [[Film/KickAss Big Daddy]], while her father [[Film/LittleShopOfHorrors Mr. Mushnik]] is having an affair and her mother [[LookWhosTalking Rosie]] has dinner with [[{{Frasier}} Marty Crane]].

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[VarietyShow Sonny's Better Half]] is engaged to [[DoTheRightThing Sal]], but falls for [[Film/KickAss Big Daddy]], while her father [[Film/LittleShopOfHorrors Mr. Mushnik]] is having an affair and her mother [[LookWhosTalking Rosie]] has dinner with [[{{Frasier}} Marty Crane]].

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[VarietyShow Sonny's Better Half]] is engaged to [[DoTheRightThing Sal]], but falls for [[Film/KickAss Big Daddy]], while her father [[LittleShopOfHorrors Mr. Mushnik]] is having an affair and her mother [[LookWhosTalking Rosie]] has dinner with [[{{Frasier}} Marty Crane]].