Married to the Mob

Married to the Mob (1988)

  • 91% of critics liked it
    (33 reviews)

  • 43% of users liked it
    (7,741 ratings)

Michelle Pfeiffer is Married to the Mob in this comedy. The wife of Mafia hitman Alec Baldwin, Pfeiffer regularly chastizes her husband for his underhanded line of work. Baldwin refuses to entertain any thoughts of quitting the mob-and besides, he's got a good thing going with Nancy Travis, the… More

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R,
Directed By
Written By
Barry Strugatz, Mark R. Burns
Genres
Drama, Romance, Comedy
In Theaters
Aug 19, 1988 Wide
On DVD
Jun 13, 2000
Orion Home Video

Critic Reviews

  • Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

    Pfeiffer is at her best, and there's plenty of action, although you may feel that some of the gags involving a scorned and vengeful wife (Mercedes Ruehl) are a bit shopworn.

  • Variety Staff, Variety

    The enormous cast is a total delight, starting with Pfeiffer, with hair dyed dark, a New York accent and a continuously nervous edge.

  • Geoff Andrew, Time Out

    Amazingly, for all its hip anarchy, it's finally an oddly old-fashioned slice of entertainment. Preston Sturges might have approved.

  • Janet Maslin, New York Times

    Miss Pfeiffer, who looks utterly ravishing in outfits that set the teeth on edge, turns Angela's plight into something funny, but she seems eminently sane even when the movie does not.

  • Desson Thomson, Washington Post

    Demme keeps his characters (scripted by Barry Strugatz and Mark R. Burns) from wandering into the Buffoon Zone.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Universal D


    A surprise, as Pfeiffer warmly engages as the mob wife tired of the mob life. Caricatures, sure, but still vibrant, warm and fun. Coulda used more Ruehl and Cusack, but whatcha gonna do?

  • Lenny M


    Quirky Romano.

  • xGary X


    Another disastrous mob "comedy" featuring Michelle Pfeiffer doing her best "Working Girl" impersonation and lots of gratuitous violence. Which is always funny.

  • Dean M


    Not bad of comedy Mafia film, but Mercedes Ruehl's hilarious as a revengeful wife of a mob boss.

  • Deb S


    Angela de Marco: God, you people work just like the mob! There's no difference. Regional Director Franklin: Oh, there's a big difference, Mrs. de Marco. The mob is run by murdering, thieving, lying, cheating psychopaths. We work for the President of the United States of… More

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