Burlesque (2010)

An appreciation of burlesque will help you enjoy this backstage musical that is pretty much Coyote Ugly but instead of a squeaky voiced talent dancing on a NY bar, this has divas Cher and Christina Aguilera treading the boards of a struggling burlesque theatre in LA, and if you don't like burlesque, the movie features some pretty good humour that will help sustain you through the umpteen musical numbers.

★★☆☆☆

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Moonstruck (1987)

An Italian American widow falls for her fiance's brother in this romantic comedy that delights with its neurotic and histrionic characters experiencing chaotic, complicated, operatic love, perhaps under the spell of a full moon.

★★★★☆

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The Witches of Eastwick (1987)

A trio of women, Jane, Sukie and Alexandra (Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Cher, redheaded, blonde and brunette) conjure up a dark, mysterious stranger using their collective feminine powers of creation, bringing havoc to their conservative New England town, in this riotous, star-studded film version of John Updike's distinctly feminist novel looking at gender politics, standards of social propriety (old-fashioned versus new) and good old good and evil, creation and destruction.

★★★★☆

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