Long Island mafia widow Angela de Marco (Michelle Pfeiffer) seeks out a better life in the goofy screwball comedy Married to the Mob (1988, Jonathan Demme; with Dean Stockwell and Alec Baldwin). Some reviews:
“1988 was a defining year in Pfeiffer’s career, thanks in part to her performance as Angela de Marco, the widow of a Mafia enforcer, in Jonathan Demme’s Married to the Mob. The film is hilarious, sometimes even downright farcical in its approach to mob life. That could easily lead an actress to play Angela too broad, especially as she’s so eager to discard her old life. Pfeiffer has great comedic moments here, particularly in the climax when she licks her lips before throwing an intense punch. But despite her big hair, accent, and haphazard walk, it’s the quiet longing in Angela’s eyes that linger most. It’s a hilarious performance anchored by pathos that transforms the film into something genuinely moving.” — Angelica Jade Bastién, “The 10 Essential Roles of Michelle Pfeiffer”,Vulture(June 2017)
“None of it would work without Michelle Pfeiffer, who gets a few choice line-readings as disgruntled mob wife Angela de Marco — her pouty Long Island inflection on the declaration “I want a divorce!” is a particular highlight — but she’s an essential grounding force for the goofballs in her orbit… Demme reserves a lot of genuine feeling for Angela, whose biographical particulars (raised in Queens, one semester at a beauty academy, great follicles) virtually guaranteed that she would end up with a slickster like “Cucumber” Frank de Marco. As much as Demme surrounds her with tacky nouveau-riche décor and colorful eccentrics, Angela’s shot at a second chance in life is seen as courageous and hard-won. She’s pounded the pavement like the rest of the stiffs who circle the classified ads and trudge from one humiliating job interview to the next; it’s a steep drop from the Valium haze of her suburban life to the humble office of a leering Chicken Lickin’ manager… As single-mother empowerment stories go, Married to the Mob stands up to many more austere treatments, owing to Demme and Pfeiffer’s unironic commitment to the character’s plight.” — Scott Tobias, AV Club (July 2009)
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It’s the wrong time of year for us to be having an animated kids movie set in the arctic coming to our screens. However there is slim pickings for families in the lead up to Christmas, so for those wanting to keep their little ones entertained comes Arctic Justice. The film has been marketed overseas under a number of different titles including Arctic Justice: Thunder Squad, Arctic Dogs and…
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Stuart Goodson (Emilio Estevez) is trying to do right every day. He is a public librarian in Cincinnati, where the paralyzing cold makes being outside a life-threatening reality for the large homeless population. The film begins with Goodson being interviewed by legal staff as the defendant in a legal case. He had asked a homeless patron with a strong body odor to leave the library. Other patrons…
On Sunday, November 11th, the audience in the movie theater at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston was given the opportunity to learn more about author Jonathan Lethem through the film LETHEMbyFred Barney Taylor.
Center Jonathan Lehthem, Director Fred Barney Taylor holding the microphone.
“America is really the West. Your mind migrates to the realm of possibility. When you’re walking across Wyoming…
Public Service Announcement-Pixieis a genuinely awful piece of Paddy Whackery, with the usual trope of casting a bunch of UK/US performers to fake Irish accents, supposedly to appease investors. For added nonsense, free associating twenty year old references like Tarantino, Y Ta Mama Tambien, and Fireflyof all things. …. I just wanted a scenic caper comedy like that gorgeous Kiwi flick Pork Pie. Or at a push Young Offenders.
