Married to the Mob

Married to the Mob (1988)

Genres - Comedy, Drama, Romance, Crime  |   Sub-Genres - Satire, Gangster Film  |   Release Date - Aug 19, 1988 (USA)  |   Run Time - 135 min.  |   Countries - United States  |   MPAA Rating - R
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson

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 promiscuous girl friend of gang boss Dean Stockwell. When Stockwell catches on to Travis' peccadilloes, he murders both his mistress and the unlucky Baldwin. At Baldwin's funeral, Stockwell is overwhelmed by Pfeiffer's beauty, and immediately begins plying her with expensive gifts. But Pfeiffer is through with this sort of thing, and with her young son in tow, she leaves town, hoping to start life anew. Upon making the acquaintance of bumbling, seemingly sincere Matthew Modine, Pfeiffer is convinced that Modine is just another mob flunkey. But it's even worse: Modine is an FBI agent, ordered to get to Stockwell by using Pfeiffer as bait. Reluctantly (he's grown quite fond of her himself), Modine blackmails Pfeiffer into setting up a rendezvous with Stockwell.

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Keywords

mob-boss, Italian-American, escape, FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), hitman, mistress, murder, blackmail

Attributes

High Artistic Quality, High Production Values