If I had to come up with a list of my all-time top ten movies, I think I can safely say Moonstruck would be on it. Movies come and go and grow and recede in my estimation, but this one has never felt less than perfect.

I’ve never seen The Last Emperor, which won the Best Picture Oscar over Moonstruck in 1988, but is there any chance it lives on in people’s hearts and minds two decades later the way this film does? No way.

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