A familiar story of a woman coming to terms with the death of her husband and of her relationship with her supportive friends and family, Moonlight and Valentino is a congenial female buddy movie which is more heart than soul, more emotion than intellect. Perkins' husband is killed in a morning jog. As her sister (Paltrow), best friend (Goldberg) and stepmother (Turner) gather -- sometimes collectively and sometimes singularly -- to give her comfort, she has a degree of difficulty in trying to get on with her life. The emotionless widow immediately distances her character from the viewer. But as written by Ellen Simon (Neil's daughter), the film also exhibits a genuine bond between the women, and they're given some good dialogue to recite. Jovi makes an impressive debut as Perkins' hunky house painter.