Married To The Mob

Director: Jonathan Demme

1988 / 104min / 35mm

When two-timing Long Island mobster “Cucumber” de Marco (Alec Baldwin) is bumped off during an extramarital tryst, his long-suffering wife, Angela (Michelle Pfeiffer), sees the chance for a new life and splits town… with besotted mafioso big Dean Stockwell and Matthew Modine’s FBI agent right behind her. An idiosyncratic, romantic tale of would-be self-reinvention set against an affectionately observed backdrop of offbeat Americana and an unexpected David Byrne score, and a wild ride of a road trip that concludes with a showstopping face-off in Miami Beach. Pfeiffer plays her mob moll part with the requisite big hair and no-bullshit ’tude, but at the same time lends the role a fund of humanity that goes beyond stereotypes, saying of it: “I didn’t want to do a parody… I tried to play it more as a homage.”

Please note that this 35mm print features Spanish subtitles