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Married to the Mob

American film directed by Jonathan Demme

For the soundtrack album, see Married to the Mob (soundtrack).

Married to the Mob is a American crimeromantic comedy film[1] directed by Jonathan Demme, written by Barry Strugatz and Mark R.

Burns, and starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Modine, Dean Stockwell, Mercedes Ruehl, and Alec Baldwin.[2] Pfeiffer plays Angela de Marco, a gangster's widow from Brooklyn, opposite Modine as the undercover FBI agent assigned the task of investigating her mafia connections.

The film was released on August 19, , by Orion Pictures.

It earned positive reviews from critics and earned several accolades; Pfeiffer was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical, and Stockwell was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Plot

Angela de Marco is the beleaguered housewife of "Cucumber" Frank de Marco, an up-and-comer in the Long Islandmob.

She is fed up with her husband's criminal lifestyle, and annoyed by the other mob wives. During an argument with Frank, she demands a divorce, but is quickly rebuffed.

Soon after, Frank is violently dispatched by his don Tony "The Tiger" Russo, when he is discovered to be also seeing the latter's mistress. Angela wants to escape the criminal underworld with her son, but is harassed by Tony, who puts the moves on her at Frank's funeral.

This clinch earns her the suspicion of FBI agents Mike Downey and Ed Benitez, who are conducting surveillance, and also of Tony's wife Connie, who confronts Angela with accusations of stealing her husband.

After Tony lavishes Angela and Joey with gifts, they move to a small apartment in the Lower East Side.

He has his people track her down there.

To complicate things, Downey is assigned to monitor Angela's movements as part of an undercover surveillance operation. He follows her around the city as she seeks employment, until he goes to wire her apartment.

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    • Downey, going by Mike Smith, sneaks out of Angela's before she can catch him plant a bug. Angela goes to a hairdresser’s and gets a job. Mike bumps into her in her building, and she asks him out. On Friday night, as they are on their date, Tony narrowly escapes a hit across town.

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    Connie barges into Angela's looking for Tony but backs off upon finding Mike there. Angela explains to him that she'd tried to break away from the mob but they won't let her. Mike subtly destroys the bugs, as he cannot resist becoming romantically involved with Angela.

    In the morning, Mike's partner Ed gets him to leave, and the FBI raids the hairdresser’s.

    Married to the mob soundtrack Contents move to sidebar hide. Shelley Jensen Producer. The pound gorilla hanging over Tony and Angela is Tony's wife Connie, a self-proclaimed "ball-busta" who leads a hornets' nest of mob wives and is the one person Tony actively fears. The site's critics consensus reads: "Buoyed by Jonathan Demme's intuitive direction and Michelle Pfeiffer's irresistible charisma, Married to the Mob is a saucy mix of broad comedy and gangster drama.

    In their offices, Angela discovers that Mike is Agent Downey. After being threatened with jail, Angela agrees to help the FBI catch Tony.

    Angela visits Tony, convincing him she's interested, and gets invited with him on a trip to Miami. The jealous Connie follows, while Downey and Ed get on the same flight as Tony and Angela.

    Tony recognizes Downey in disguise at the hotel, as he's crossed paths with him a few times. Tony's henchmen bring him up to the suite, but just before they can do away with him and Angela, Connie bursts into the Miami Beach suite.

    After a climactic shootout, Angela punches out Connie and the FBI bursts in. Some time after Tony is convicted for murdering Karen and Frank, Downey convinces Angela to give him a second chance.

    Cast

    In addition, short cameo appearances include the film's director, Jonathan Demme, as a man getting off an elevator in Miami, and the film's music supervisor, Gary Goetzman, as the guy playing piano when the mobsters gather at the "King's Roost" restaurant.

    Production

    Jessica Lange and Tom Cruise were first considered for the lead roles.

    Something Wild star Ray Liotta turned down the part of Frank.

    Filming took place on Long Island and Brooklyn, New York.

    Music

    Main article: Married to the Mob (soundtrack)

    The musical score was composed by David Byrne, after Demme directed the Talking Heads concert films Stop Making Sense.

    The film features the song "Goodbye Horses" by Q Lazzarus, which Demme would later use in The Silence of the Lambs.

    Reception

    Married to the Mob received a largely positive response from critics.

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    On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 88% based on 49 reviews, with an average rating of / The site's critics consensus reads: "Buoyed by Jonathan Demme's intuitive direction and Michelle Pfeiffer's irresistible charisma, Married to the Mob is a saucy mix of broad comedy and gangster drama."[3] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 71 out of , based on 15 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[4]

    Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote that "Married to the Mob works best as a wildly overdecorated screwball farce it also plays as a gentle romance, and as the story of a woman trying to re-invent her life."[5]The Washington Post described the film as "all decked out in Godfather kitsch, but underneath its loud exterior, a complex heroine struggles for freedom."[6]Variety called the film "fresh, colorful and inventive."[7]Time Out wrote that although the film was "relentlessly shallow, the performances, music and gaudy visuals provide a fizzy vitality for which many other directors would give their right arm."[8]Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave a more lukewarm review, but ended positively: "Still, Married to the Mob is loaded with wonderful offbeat touches [and] most assuredly doesn't lack soul."[9]

    Jonathan Demme's direction was praised for its idiosyncrasy.

    The New York Times called him "American cinema's king of amusing artifacts: blinding bric-a-brac, the junkiest of jewelry, costumes so frightening they take your breath away."[5]The Washington Post wrote that Demme "has nailed one with this playful, but dangerous, gangster farce."[6]

    The acting performances were widely acclaimed, especially that of Michelle Pfeiffer in a star-making turn, "her best performance to date."[9]Richard Corliss of Time wrote that Pfeiffer was the "emotional anchor to his [Demme's] vertiginous sight gags."[10]Variety claimed the "enormous cast is a total delight, starting with Pfeiffer."[7]The Washington Post called Pfeiffer a "deft comedian It's her movie, and she graces it."[6]Matthew Modine was "winning", according to Variety.[7]

    Supporting players Dean Stockwell and Mercedes Ruehl also received praise for their performances.

    The Washington Post described Ruehl's character as "majestic in her jealousy, stealing scenes but never the show from the sweetly determined Pfeiffer."[6] Maslin of The New York Times found that Pfeiffer and Modine were "readily upstaged by Miss Ruehl and, especially, by Mr.

    Stockwell. His shoulder-rolling caricature of this suave, foppish and thoroughly henpecked kingpin is the film's biggest treat."[5]Variety described Stockwell as "a hoot."[7]

    Awards and nominations

    Notes

    References

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      Married to the mob sale: Read Edit View history. Mercedes Ruehl Connie Russo. It's a little hard to pin down that distinctive Demme touch—warm and humane without stifling earnestness, colorful without veering into grotesquerie—but his best films have a way of conforming the world to suit his oddball sensibility. The Economist print edition: Feb.

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