Married to the Mob (1988)
- Directed by
- Jonathan Demme
- Genre
- crime film, romantic comedy film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 39m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 6.0 of 10 from 327 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A mob widow tries to start a new life away from her late husband's criminal connections. An FBI agent goes undercover to investigate her but ends up falling for her.
lightheartedplayfulcampyromanticcomicfast-pacedwhimsicalstylish
What happens
Married to the Mob is a 1988 American crime romantic comedy film 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. Pfeiffer plays Angela de Marco, a gangster's widow from Long Island, opposite Modine as the undercover FBI agent assigned the task of investigating her mafia connections. The film was released on August 19, 1988, 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. Demme called it "a complete escapist fantasy... fun to do, and very cathartic, revivifying." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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