Moonstruck Filming Locations
Another favorite film of mine is “Moonstruck.” Cher plays Loretta Castorini, an Italian-American widow living with her parents in Brooklyn, who is torn between her fiancé and his brother.
First, here is a video montage created by my daughter Amber, containing her photos, as well as some of mine. Once you have enjoyed that, I have the locations listed below, with the photos. Not all locations in the video are up on this page yet…it’s a work in progress!
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19 Cranberry Street, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn
Here are two views of the Castorini House from the movie.
2004
Loretta walking back to her house on Cranberry Street
May 2008
West on Cranberry Street – Brooklyn Heights
From the movie, looking west on Cranberry Street, heading toward the Brooklyn Promenade, with its views of lower Manhattan.
May 2008
Sackett & Henry Streets – Brooklyn
In this scene, Loretta goes to the Cammareri Bakery to invite her fiance’s brother to the wedding. Loretta is standing on the northwest corner of Sackett & Henry Streets, about to cross to the southeast corner to the Cammareri Bros. Bakery. This view is looking south on Henry Street.
May 2008. View from the northwest corner of Sackett & Henry Streets, looking south on Henry Street. The pharmacy from Moonstruck is still there on the left. On the right is the location where the Cammareri Bakery was located.
Loretta entering the cellar of the bakery to talk to Ronny.
May 2008. This is where the Cammareri Bros. Bakery was located, and the entrance to the cellar is on the right, by the SUV.
W. 4th & 12th Streets (Manhattan) – New York, NY
The fictitious restaurant, the Grand Ticino, is featured at various points in the movie. Its first appearance is during a scene when Loretta and Johnny are having dinner and Johnny proposes. Later, Loretta’s mother Rose (Olympia Dukakis), dines alone and meets Perry (John Mahoney), a college professor with a penchant for getting drinks thrown in his face by the college students he dates.
According to the street signs, the restaurant is located at Hicks & Cranberry Streets. The Castorini home is located at 19 Cranberry Street in Brooklyn, and the characters are depicted as being within a short walking distance. 
May 2009. The actual location for the building is in the West Village in Manhattan, at 4th & 12th Streets.
Lower Manhattan from the Brooklyn Promenade
From the movie.
May 2008
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Dominic Pace
Thank you so much for this.. I’m a fan of movie locations.. Here is my album for the west coast.. you are welcome to it. Dominic
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Joel
Thank you! This is awesome! I am watching Moonstruck right now and googled 19 cranberry street, brooklyn and am loving this!
Jennifer
Glad you liked it. It’s amazing that they used the real address in the movie. Sure makes it easier to find the location when they use the real address. It was like that for another movie I wanted to find a location to, only that was in Paris, and it was 1996, even before Google and 10 years before Street View. But I found that one too!
Nicole
Thank you for all the info. Any idea where they filmed the confession scene (the Church)?
Jim Setzer
Thanks as well, This would be a great surprise to take my wife who is a “Moonstruck” fan.
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Jan Farrington
I’ve just been walking around Brooklyn Heights and found the house on Cranberry–but would also love to know what church Loretta and her mother were in. St. Charles Borromeo would have probably been their “real” parish church–it’s southeast of the house a few blocks…but I went in there and it looked much too dark. Do you know? If not, I’ll try to investigate….Thanks!
Kat Mc
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Cranberry Street. The confessional has a very unique design. You can see it in the church photos on Google.
Donna Rilley
Sacred Heart RC church Yonkers NY
Joanne Menzin
Thanks so much for the locations! I have always wanted to go to all of them and now I can. The bakery location across the stree from the pharmacy is in Cobble Hill I think- just a bit farther south than Brooklyn Heights.
Jennifer
You’re welcome! I personally don’t know the delineation between neighborhoods. According to Google Maps, which has a very cool feature which outlines the border of neighborhoods, it’s in Carroll Gardens. Either way, enjoy your visit and glad you enjoyed my page!
Jennifer
You’re very welcome! Yes, the bakery location is not right nearby the other locations in Brooklyn Heights – it is farther south, not much. I put in all the addresses or intersections in my posts, so that people can visit them if they want.
Joanne Menzin
Do you know where they filmed inside for the Grand Ticino restaurant? Is there a real restaurant? I know the outside was shot on 4th & 12th Sts in the west village/NYC.
Jennifer
I am actually not sure about the inside, whether that was the same restaurant as the exterior or a set, sorry!
Joao
Cool. Had no idea the hipster coffeshop on my corner and where I often have breakfast was the Cammareri Bros. Bakery.
Jennifer
Yes, it’s amazing to find these places that we see in movies. I enjoy the hobby.
Dianne
I am delighted to find a whole horde of people who are as crazy obsessed as I am with this wonderful film. I pull it out every winter to chase away the blues, which it does, invariably.
aggie longo
Absolutely takes me back to my Italian upbringing, that was our kitchen growing up! My favorite movie of all time.
Jeanette L. Edwards
For decades I lived in the vicinity of many of the lower NYC locations shown above for the movie “Moonstruck”. Perhaps in the movie, they called the Italian restaurant the Grand Ticino. However, I lived near the real Grand Ticino Restaurant. It was my go to place for Italian food. I ate at the Grand Ticino frequently, and I can say with a certainty that the building used in the movie “Moonstruck” with Grand Ticino on its awning is not the Grand Ticino Restaurant that was located in NYC for more than eighty years. You can see the real Grand Ticino Restaurant and its menus by Googling for it. Some historical/museum sites show photos of it.
Tom
After years of searching the cemetery the Grandfather walks the dogs to is a bit of Hollywood magic. He opens the gates to the playground at Middagh Street in Brooklyn but then it cuts to a church in Toronto called Little Trinity Anglican Church. I spent hours walking and google mapping the neighborhood but I finally found it.
garbo
The scene of the house on Cranberry St,was seen in the movie The French Con
nection,when Popeye and Cloudy were following ,the car from Ratners Deli on Delancy St.
kate
the grand ticino was real! it was closed in 2001, though, when the landlord wouldn’t renew their lease.