Moonlight and Valentino (1995) on Netflix
Rebecca Lott loses her husband in a jogging accident. Her sister Lucy, her friend Sylvie and her former stepmother Alberta rally around her. A younger housepainter flirts with her.
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Plot summary
After her husband is killed in a jogging accident, Rebecca Lott, who teaches poetry, is surrounded by three women who try to help her through her grief. Lucy, her sister, smokes heavily and has never come to terms with their mother's death from cancer fourteen years before. Sylvie, her closest friend, is stuck in a marriage that makes her unhappy. Alberta, her former stepmother, works as a Wall Street executive and has trouble relating to people outside the financial world. A younger man who comes to paint the house flirts with Rebecca, and the other women take notice of him as well.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Moonlight and Valentino (1995)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Screenwriter Ellen Simon drew the story from her own life: her husband was struck by a car and killed while jogging in New York City in 1988, and the women who spent two weeks at her side, her sister, her stepmother, actress Marsha Mason, and her best friend, inspired her.
