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Alec Baldwin, Captain Haggerty, Charles Napier

A recently widowed Mafia wife tries to start her life anew, only to find past acquaintances and FBI agents on her tail.

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R, 104 min.

Directed by: Jonathan Demme

Release Date: August 19, 1988

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DVD Release Date: June 13, 2000

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Flixster Reviews (210)

  • jaynyca1
    February 12, 2008
    jaynyca1
    This is a light heart look at mob that the whole family can enjoy. I has a little something for everyone.
  • garyX
    March 2, 2007
    garyX
    Another disastrous mob "comedy" featuring Michelle Pfeiffer doing her best "Working Girl" impersonation and lots of gratuitous violence. Which is always funny.
  • sdcraftnmom
    September 29, 2006
    sdcraftnmom
    stupid but hularious
  • graveling861
    March 14, 2009
    graveling861
    It's fine but simple.
  • trisarahtops22
    October 16, 2008
    trisarahtops22
    A cheesy-in-a-good-way 80's movie. It was enjoyable, but I probably wouldn't watch it again.
  • KojiKabuto
    August 8, 2009
    KojiKabuto
    No la veia desde el VHS y me parece que ha envejecido mal. Para pasar el rato (5+).
  • magnolia12883
    April 4, 2009
    magnolia12883
    R, 103 min, 1988

    Jonathan Demme's deadpan mob comedy is intense, violent, smart and often very funny. Angela de Marco (Michelle Pfeiffer) is the reluctant wife of mid-level Mafia hood 'Cucumber' Frank de Marco (Alec Baldwin). She doesn't inform her husband when they've been in...( read more)vited to dinners, she doesn't like going to "family" get-togethers, and she hates mingling with the other mob wives (including Joan Cusack, O-Lan Jones, and "Night Court"'s Ellen Foley). Frank's boss is the much-feared Tony 'The Tiger' Russo (Dean Stockwell). Tony is having an affair with cocktail waitress Karen Lutnick (Nancy Travis). Frank is also sleeping with Karen on the side, and Tony knows this, killing first Karen and then Frank. At the funeral, Tony comes onto Angela, much to the shock and anger of Tony's psychotically jealous wife Connie (Mercedes Ruehl). Angela is bereaved, but sees her newfound widowhood as an opportunity to leave the life of the Mob for good. She takes her son Joey (Anthony J. Nici) and moves to the city, finds a job, and undergoes a tough search for an apartment. One day, she meets a plumber named Mike Smith (Matthew Modine) who is kind and pretty obviously interested in her - but not all is what it seems. Mike is actually Agent Mike Downey of the FBI who, with partner Ed Benitez (Oliver Platt), has been staking out Angela as a potential conduit through which to finally take down the Mob once and for all. Jonathan Demme started working with Roger Corman exploitation productions such as "Caged Heat" (1974) and "Crazy Mama" (1975) before moving into the mainstream with "Melvin and Howard" (1980). He has since veered from the comedic ("Something Wild") to the theatrical (the Talking Heads concert documentary "Stop Making Sense" and the Spalding Gray one-man show "Swimming to Cambodia"). Here, working from a screenplay by Barry Strugatz & Mark R. Burns, Demme has made a comedy that is filled to brimming over with plot, which somehow seems restrained and over-the-top at the same time - the tension between the two disciplines of comedy would almost be enough to break the film in half, yet somehow it withstands the strain. I think that Demme's masterstroke is to cast serious actors in comedic roles and to direct them to play it more-or-less straight, thus creating what is essentially a mob spoof in dark romantic comedy clothing; you believe the characters, and thus the situation has a genuine suspense, and there are laughs along the way which seem to grow naturally from their behavior and lives, not from "gags" (in particular, I liked the inventive and remarkably efficient way that Modine's busy FBI agent has of getting ready in the morning in record time). Pfeiffer is a gem as Angela, creating a character we can root for, and care about, while still laughing at the situation and the characters around her. Stockwell and Ruehl are the two actors who come closest to creating utter characatures, while still coming out unscathed; we pretty much believe these people - however silly they may become. Ultimately, this is a film about becoming your own person, going against the grain, and finding happiness in the face of adversity, and as such it succeeds immensely.
  • friskyflugette
    January 23, 2009
    friskyflugette
    A bit predictable but overall a funny film which has enough laughs to keep all entertained. Pfeiffer is great as always.
  • xxxcli213xxx
    December 10, 2008
    xxxcli213xxx
    no thanks not my kinda thing
  • nilesburns6flags
    November 29, 2008
    nilesburns6flags
    Pretty good movie... I think that the chick is hot... Pretty confusing

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