The nearest that Cassavetes came to directing an outright comedy (the discredited Big Trouble notwithstanding), Minnie and Moskowitz explores the improbable romance between two dissimilar yet equally lonely people. Minnie Moore (Rowlands) is a successful museum curator and Seymour Moskowitz (Cassel) is a parking lot attendant who meet when Minnie’s blind date threatens her in Seymour’s lot. An affectionate tribute to the Frank Capra and Preston Sturges comedies Cassavetes first loved, the film is also something of a "home movie" that features supporting performances from Cassavetes’s mother, Rowlands’s mother and brother, and even Cassel’s mother-in-law and wife.