MARRIED TO THE MOB
Directed by Jonathan Demme
With Michelle Pfeiffer, Dean Stockwell, Matthew Modine
1988, USA, 106 minutes, rated R
After her husband is killed, Angela sees a way out of the Mafia. However, her husband’s boss has other ideas – he wants her for himself. Undercover FBI agent Mike Downey finds himself falling in love with her too.
Matthew Modine and production designer Kristi Zea will discuss Married to the Mob after the screening.
“Demme isn’t aghast at kitsch, or even superior to it; actually, he’s its purely loving archivist and he matches Kristi Zea’s zestful production designs, setup for setup, with song after song (the contribution of Gary Goetzman and Sharon Boyle), from an original score by longtime collaborator David Byrne.” Sheia Benson, Los Angeles Times
Getting close to the edge lately? Bumping into misfits, weirdos, the occasional psychopath? If so, you may be a character in a Jonathan Demme fantasy. But if you’re watching Demme’s pictures from a safe distance — and now it’s the delicious Mafia sendup “Married to the Mob” — you’ll thoroughly enjoy the out-of-kilter existence. After establishing an appealing sense of anarchy in his 1986 “Something Wild,” Demme has kept the oddballs rolling. As an almost-mad housewife in Mafia Heights, Long Island, Michelle Pfeiffer is delicately riotous. Dean Stockwell, as the dangerous, lusty Tony “The Tiger” Russo, pumps his character-acting for all it’s worth. And the avian-featured Matthew Modine puts an endearing twitch into Mike Downey, the FBI agent who’s eavesdropping on Tony and associates. – Desson Howe, Washington Post
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