While Johnny is on a trip to Sicily to visit his dying mother, Loretta seeks out Johnny's estranged brother, Ronny (played by Nicolas Cage), to invite him to the wedding.
When the sweet but obsequious Johnny Cammareri (played by Danny Aiello) proposes properly, she decides this is her chance to get things right (small problem: she doesn't love him). Loretta Castorini (Cher) is a bookkeeper in her late 30s who lost her husband several years prior she's convinced the marriage was cursed because they got married at City Hall. Whenever I watch this movie, I thrill that it was shot near my picturesque Italian-American neighborhood in Brooklyn.
