Moonlight and Valentino is a 1995 American dramedy film directed by David Anspaugh. The screenplay by Ellen Simon is based on her semi-autobiographical play of the same title staged at Duke University six years earlier. Rebecca Lott is a thirtysomething poetry teacher who is widowed when her husband is killed while jogging. Helping her cope with her grief is a support system consisting of her sister Lucy Trager, a chain-smoker still trying to deal with their mother's death from cancer fourteen years earlier; her best friend Sylvie Morrow, who is trapped in an unhappy marriage to Paul; and her... former stepmother Alberta Russell, a high-powered Wall Street executive so caught up in the financial world she has difficulty relating to anyone not involved with it. Romance finds its way back into Rebecca's life when a flirtatious handsome younger man hired to paint the house takes an interest in her, and his presence affects the other women as well. The film earned mostly negative reviews from critics and currently holds a 15% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
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| Release date: | September 29, 1995 |
| Directed by: | David Anspaugh |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 105 Minutes |
| Producer: | Eric Fellner, Tim Bevan |
| Music by: | Howard Shore |
| Screenplay by: | Ellen Simon |
| Adapted from: | Moonlight and Valentino |
| Genre: | Comedy |