Moonlight and Valentino

Moonlight and Valentino (1995) is a British-American romantic drama you can watch online on iFILM. A young widow loses her husband without warning. Suddenly she has three women at her door: her sister, her best friend, and her former stepmother — each carrying their own grief and their own opinions about how to handle it.

Adapted by Ellen Simon from her own stage play, the film gathers Elizabeth Perkins, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kathleen Turner, and Whoopi Goldberg into an ensemble with no obvious lead — just four different temperaments working through the same question. Directed by David Anspaugh, it holds grief and comedy in the same frame without choosing between them. Jon Bon Jovi shows up as a local housepainter in a casting choice that sounds odd and works anyway. Stream Moonlight and Valentino (1995) online on iFILM.