Married to the Mob
Angela de Marco (Michelle Pfeiffer) is fed up with her gangster husband's (Alec Baldwin) line of work and wants no part of the crime world. Soon, her husband is killed and she falls for an undercover FBI agent who is sent to investigate the case. But there is a roadblock: a libidinous mafia kingpin seeking to claim her for himself.
31 May 1958, Manhattan, New York, USA
29 April 1958, Santa Ana, California, USA
5 June 1951, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
20 February 1951, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
9 January 1950, Richmond [now Staten Island], New York City, New York, USA
15 October 1959, Newark, New Jersey, USA
October 28, 2016
This is gangster life played for screwball comedy but the culture isn't all that different than what Martin Scorsese would present in Goodfellas just a couple of years later, right down to the colorful names like Vinnie The Slug...February 05, 2015
Offbeat genial suburban gangster comedy delightfully directed by Jonathan Demme.June 24, 2006
Amazingly, for all its hip anarchy, it's finally an oddly old-fashioned slice of entertainment. Preston Sturges might have approved.January 01, 2000
A mix of goofy ethnicity, romance and self-discovery, "Married to the Mob" is an offer you can't refuse.July 07, 2010
The enormous cast is a total delight, starting with Pfeiffer, with hair dyed dark, a New York accent and a continuously nervous edge.January 01, 2000
Demme keeps his characters (scripted by Barry Strugatz and Mark R. Burns) from wandering into the Buffoon Zone.May 20, 2003
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.October 09, 2016
Married to the Mob is full of promise, but goes nowhere, apparently satisfied enough with being avant-garde and hip.January 31, 2011
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.January 21, 2011
A lot of fun to watch, thanks to a darn sturdy cast and a director with a sublime ability to make fluff seem deeper than it really is.