| Married to the Mob (1988),
				Director: Jonathan Demme, rated PG 
				Angela always 
				wanted to give marriage a shot. 
				
				  Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Modine, Dean Stockwell, 
				Mercedes Ruehl, Alec Baldwin, Paul Lazar, Charles Napier, Joan 
				Cusack, Ellen Foley 
				DML Rating: 
				★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 
				- good 
				"Look, I fight for 
				what's mine, I make no apologies. You can call me a ball-buster 
				but it's just the way I am." - 
				Connie Russo 
				Why watch this? 
				This movie really showcases Michelle Pfeiffer, and her acting 
				ability. 
				Plot Summary: 
				Angela de Marco, an unhappily married woman whose husband is a 
				mobster, yearns to escape her life in the crime world. When her 
				husband is killed, she seizes the opportunity to move to New 
				York City and start anew. However, the mob boss who killed her 
				husband is intent on making Angela his mistress, while an 
				undercover FBI agent assigned to investigate her connections to 
				the mob also finds himself attracted to her. Dad's Preview: 
				After a decade of heavy, bloody gangster films, we finally got 
				this treasure. It's about gangster wives, and all they put up 
				with to "stay in the money" and not get, you know, 
				whacked. One wife, Angela, learns that her husband, Frank the Cucumber, 
				was knocked off, so she wants out. The problem: mob boss Tony "The Tiger" won't let her leave 
				because she knows too much, and he wants to, you know, make her 
				his squeeze. Pfeiffer is 
				wonderful as the Jersey-lipped mob queen with a good heart. This 
				could have been titled "Love Mafia Style". 
				 Kenneth Utt, 
				Edward Saxon; Orion Pictures
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