Married to the Mob

Married to the Mob

  • Director: Jonathan Demme
  • Writer: Barry Strugatz,Mark R. Burns
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English
  • Release date: August 19, 1988
  • Sound mix: Dolby SR
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Die Mafiosi-Braut
  • "Married to the Mob" is a comedy film directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Paul Lazar and Alec Baldwin . It was released in the United States on August 19, 1988.
    The film tells the story of Frank, a mafia gangster in New York, USA, and his accomplices kill a mafia gangster from another gang. Just when he returned home triumphantly, his wife Angela told him that she was going to divorce him because she was not satisfied with this life. . Frank, who didn't take it seriously, molested Tony's lover at the celebration party, and Tony beat Frank to death when he was angry. Angela became a widow and took her son to New York's East Side to start a poor but respectable new life. Detectives Mike and Tony both have their eyes on her: Mike wants to learn about the Mafia through her, and Tony wants to get her.

    Details

    • Release date August 19, 1988
    • Filming locations Bay Shore, Long Island, New York, USA
    • Production companies Orion Pictures, Mysterious Arts

    Box office

    Budget

    $10,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $21,486,757

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $3,231,056

    Gross worldwide

    $21,486,757

    Movie reviews

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    • By Tania 2022-10-15 14:48:48

      [Film Review] Married to the Mob (1988)

      Before cinching his immortal cachet with hefty THE SILENCE OF THE LAMB (1991), and PHILADELPHIA (1993), Jonathan Demme has made a name as a capable humorist, MARRIED TO THE MOB is a knowingly gleesome parody of the gangster picture that is perceived as the shorthand of American cinema's high-water mark, post-GODFATHER (1972) and its sequel.

      When rising Mafioso Frank...

    User comments

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    • By Issac 2023-09-23 21:52:55

      SO GOOD I LAUGHED AND CRIED AND SCREAMED JONATHAN DEMME WAS A...

    • By Brice 2023-09-17 16:10:14

      The fancy packaging of love farce, that is, the Chinese characters are really a bit of a...

    • By Melba 2023-08-23 12:44:09

      Michelle Pfeiffer shows off American English with an Italian accent as a sincere but vulgar...

    • By Alanna 2023-07-22 00:04:44

      I thought it was a light comedy, but it turned out to be a farce in the end. Gang shootout is like a joke. But Michelle pfieffer is really...

    • By Martina 2023-07-01 06:33:08

      How can I be so cute? Essentially Hitchcock's "Beauty" but turned into an '80s New York gangster...

    Movie quotes

    • Stewardess: Madame, you're supposed to stay in your seat until the plane comes to a complete stop.

      Connie Russo: Honey, forget about it!

    • Angela de Marco: Everything we own fell off a truck!

    • "Cucumber" Frank de Marco: [Tony has shot Frank after discovering he was sleeping with his mistress] I loved you like a father

      Tony 'The Tiger' Russo: You disappointed the shit out of me.