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

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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