Married to the Mob

1988
R
1h 44m

IMDb RATING

6.2/10

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Dark Comedy Comedy Crime Romance

A mobster's wife hates her lifestyle, but gets a chance to change it when her husband is killed - if the Long Island mob and the FBI let her.A mobster's wife hates her lifestyle, but gets a chance to change it when her husband is killed - if the Long Island mob and the FBI let her.A mobster's wife hates her lifestyle, but gets a chance to change it when her husband is killed - if the Long Island mob and the FBI let her.

Director
- Jonathan Demme
Writers
- Barry Strugatz
- Mark R. Burns
Stars

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IMDb RATING

6.2/10

20K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Jonathan Demme
Writers
- Barry Strugatz
- Mark R. Burns
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 6 wins & 5 nominations total

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Trivia
So many scenes didn't make it into the movie that Jonathan Demme decided to place them at the end during the credits, to retell the story.

Goofs
At about 52 Minutes into the movie a sniper shoots 2 men in a moving vehicle. First he shoots the man in the passenger seat and you see a close up of the bullet hole in the windshield. Then before he even shoots the second man driving the car you see another shot of the car and windshield and there's two bullet holes in the windshield when there should only be one because he hadn't shot the second man yet.

Quotes
Angela de Marco: God, you people work just like the mob! There's no difference.
Regional Director Franklin: Oh, there's a big difference, Mrs. de Marco. The mob is run by murdering, thieving, lying, cheating psychopaths. We work for the President of the United States of America.

Crazy credits
There are numerous outtakes in the end credits, including one showing the carved headboard of the bed in which de Marco is sporting with his mistress, bearing the words "Veni, Veni, Veni" (I Came, I Came, I Came), parodying Caesar's famous quote.

Alternate versions
The German theatrical release was cut to 92 minutes for language and content.

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert: Betrayed/Stealing Home/The Last Temptation of Christ/Married to the Mob/Hero and the Terror (1988)

Soundtracks
Mambo Italiano
Performed by Rosemary Clooney
Written by Bob Merrill
Courtesy of CBS Records

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Featured review

6/10

Good fun.

It ain't Shakespeare, that's true, but it is a light and breezy romp. Pfieffer and Modine and Baldwin and Dean Stockwell are all having a great time with this 'dissatisfied mob wife' tale, and you will too. Interesting to watch this in the light of the "sopranos"- they are like loopy relatives somehow. Demme went on to greater, darker films (silence of the lambs, philadelphia) but I still enjoy his lighter period. So will you.