25 Movies to Mend a Broken Heart

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To begin with full disclosure, I am not at all sure a movie can mend a broken heart. It may be able to distract you, or cheer you up a little, or put a positive spin on things, and if it does any of those things, you can count yourself fortunate. But mending a broken heart? Only time can do that—sometimes.

That said, here are twenty-five films that made me feel very good while I was watching them. Certainly one of the most beneficial was Norman Jewison’s Moonstruck, a reminder that Cher at one time was a superb actress, although she has chosen different directions.

It is a film about love. Not content with one romance, it involves five or six, depending on how you count, and conceding that some characters are involved in more than one. It exists in a Brooklyn that has never existed—a Brooklyn where the full moon makes the night like day and drives people crazy with amore, when the moon-a hits their eyes like a big-a pizza pie.

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