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