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* OneTrueLove: Loretta had it once, lost it, and has settled with Johnny. She unexpectedly and unconveniently finds a SecondLove with her fiancé's brother.

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* OneTrueLove: Loretta had it once, lost it, and has settled with Johnny. She unexpectedly and unconveniently inconveniently finds a SecondLove with her fiancé's brother.
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* FrequentlyFullMoon: Every time the moon is shown it is in its full phase, which should be impossible since the film takes place over the course of a few days. But hey, a waning gibbous wouldn’t have quite the same effect…
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*ItalianAmericanCaricature: Centering around the Italian-American Castorini family, the entire cast displays these traits to varying degrees, with the MultigenerationalHousehold, superstitions, going to church to pray for one's sins, Johnny Camareri spending most of the film with his dying mother in Sicily, Ronny Camareri being operatically passionate and hot-tempered, and Loretta being able to give it right back to Ronny. The soundtrack even features Italian American singer Music/DeanMartin.
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* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: When Ronny tells Loretta he loves her, she slaps him and yells "Snap out of it!" This is the movie's SignatureScene.

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* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: When Ronny tells Loretta he loves her, she slaps him and yells "Snap out of it!" This is the movie's SignatureScene.it!"
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* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex.
** The second time Ronny and Loretta have sex, they're both deep in the afterglow, when by all rights they should be guiltier.
** After Ray and Rita have sex for the first time in who knows how long, they're both giddy afterward.
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* SiblingsTriangle: Loretta is set to marry Johnny out of loneliness but unexpectedly falls for his brother Ronny.

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* SiblingsTriangle: SiblingTriangle: Loretta is set to marry Johnny out of loneliness but unexpectedly falls for his brother Ronny.

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* LoveTriangle: Ronny, Johnny and Loretta



* OneTrueLove: Loretta had it once, lost it, and has settled with Johnny.

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* OneTrueLove: Loretta had it once, lost it, and has settled with Johnny. She unexpectedly and unconveniently finds a SecondLove with her fiancé's brother.


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* SiblingsTriangle: Loretta is set to marry Johnny out of loneliness but unexpectedly falls for his brother Ronny.
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* BetterPartnerAssertion: Even before realizing he's attracted to Loretta, Ronny lambasts her for choosing to marry his brother Johnny, since Johnny inadvertently caused Ronny to lose his hand in an accident years before and they are clearly marrying each other for convenience rather than love. He claims he is the better option because he actually wholeheartedly loves her.
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Notable for getting Cher, Dukakis and screenwriter John Patrick Shanley (the future playwright of ''Theatre/{{Doubt}}'') UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s. Notable further for the fact that the acting awards, for a spot-on depiction of a big Italian family, all went to the ''non''-Italian actors.[[note]]Cher's heritage is Armenian, Irish and Cherokee: Dukakis was second generation Greek; Shanley is Irish-American.[[/note]] The Italian actors were Vincent Gardenia, a Neapolitan; he did get nominated, but didn't win; Italian-Americans Nick Cage and Danny Aiello.

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Notable for getting Cher, Dukakis and screenwriter John Patrick Shanley (the future playwright of ''Theatre/{{Doubt}}'') UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s. Notable further for the fact that the acting awards, for a spot-on depiction of a big Italian family, all went to the ''non''-Italian actors.actors and screenwriter.[[note]]Cher's heritage is Armenian, Irish and Cherokee: Dukakis was second generation Greek; Shanley is Irish-American.[[/note]] The Italian actors were Vincent Gardenia, a Neapolitan; he did get nominated, but didn't win; Italian-Americans Nick Cage and Danny Aiello.

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