"Actor: Danny La Rue"

• Moonstruck | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £7.19   |  Saving you £5.80 (80.67%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Remember the outfit Cher wore to the Oscars when she won an Academy Award for her performance in this 1987 film? Ay-yi-yi. The actress' more retiring character in this infectious comedy leaps several psychological hurdles just giving her hair a permanent. But then the original screenplay of Moonstruck, by John Patrick Shanley (Joe Versus the Volcano), is a wonderful, gently satirical tale of an Italian-American family dealing with repression and dissatisfaction against a backdrop of cultural expectations. Cher is focused and funny as a widow who feels she should marry an older fellow (Danny Aiello), but then falls for his black-sheep brother (Nicolas Cage). Olympia Dukakis and Vincent Gardenia are perfect as her parents, and John Mahoney (of TV's Frasier) has a memorable, small role as a middle-aged man on the make who gets a lecture from Dukakis's character. Shanley's dialogue is comically stylised in a way that makes one appreciate how much words can inform an actor's performance. Taking its cues from him and director Norman Jewison (And Justice for All), the cast immerse themselves in a pool of hilariously operatic emotion. --Tom Keogh

• Our Miss Fred | DVD | (25/02/2008) from £8.00   |  Saving you £4.99 (62.38%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Danny La Rue stars as Fred Wimbush a Shakespearean actor who has been drafted into World War II and as such is appearing in a camp show in France when the Nazis advance. In order to escape without being shot as a spy he must continue his guise as a woman!

• Mr Bean Vol.2 | DVD | (17/11/2008) from £10.78   |  Saving you £-0.79 (-7.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Mr Bean: Vol.2