Married to the Mob - wikipedia Married to the Mob For the soundtrack album, see Married to the Mob ( soundtrack ). Married to the Mob Theatrical release poster Directed by Jonathan Demme Produced by Edward Saxon Written by Barry Strugatz Mark R. Burns Starring Michelle Pfeiffer Matthew Modine Dean Stockwell Music by David Byrne Cinematography Tak Fujimoto Edited by Craig McKay Production company Mysterious Arts Distributed by Orion Pictures Release date August 19, 1988 ( 1988 - 08 - 19 ) Running time 104 minutes Country United States Language English Budget $10 million Box office $21.4 million Married to the Mob is a 1988 American comedy film directed by Jonathan Demme, starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Matthew Modine. Pfeiffer, in something of a departure from her previous roles, gave an acclaimed lead performance as a gangster 's widow from Brooklyn, opposite Modine as the undercover FBI agent assigned the task of investigating her mafia connections. As a slippery mob boss romantically pursuing Angela, Dean Stockwell was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Reception 3.1 Critical response 3.2 Accolades 4 Music 5 See also 6 References 7 External links Plot Angela de Marco ( Michelle Pfeiffer ) is the wife of mafia up - and - comer Frank `` The Cucumber '' de Marco ( Alec Baldwin ), who gets violently dispatched by Mob boss Tony `` The Tiger '' Russo ( Dean Stockwell ) when he is discovered in a compromising situation with the latter 's mistress Karen ( Nancy Travis ). Angela wants to escape the mafia scene with her son, but is harassed by Tony who puts the moves on her at Frank 's funeral. This clinch earns her the suspicion of FBI agents Mike Downey ( Matthew Modine ) and Ed Benitez ( Oliver Platt ), who are conducting surveillance, and also of Tony 's wife Connie ( Mercedes Ruehl ), who repeatedly confronts Angela with accusations of stealing her husband. To further complicate things, Mike Downey is assigned to monitor all of Angela 's movements as part of an undercover surveillance operation, but can not resist becoming romantically involved with Angela himself. Angela 's attempts to break away from the Mob result in comic mayhem and a climactic showdown in a honeymoon suite in Miami. Cast Michelle Pfeiffer as Angela de Marco Matthew Modine as Agent Michael `` Mike '' Downey Dean Stockwell as Anthony `` Tony the Tiger '' Russo Mercedes Ruehl as Connie Russo Paul Lazar as Tommy Boyle Alec Baldwin as Frank `` The Cucumber '' de Marco Joan Cusack as Rose Ellen Foley as Theresa O - Lan Jones as Phyllis Oliver Platt as Agent Edward `` Ed '' Benitez Nancy Travis as Karen Lutnick Sister Carol as Rita ' Hello Gorgeous ' Harcourt Tracey Walter as Mr. Chicken Lickin ' Chris Isaak as The Clown Obba Babatunde as The Face of Justice Charles Napier as Ray, Angela 's hairdesser Frank Ferrera as Vinnie `` The Slug '' Gary Howard Klar as Al ' The Worm ' Gary Goetzman as The Guy at the Piano Jonathan Demme as Man getting off elevator in Miami Al Lewis as Uncle Joe Reception Critical response Married to the Mob received a largely positive response from critics, and currently holds an 89 % rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a score of 71 on Metacritic. Janet Maslin in The New York Times wrote that `` Married to the Mob works best as a wildly overdecorated screwball farce... it also plays as a gentle romance, and as the story of a woman trying to re-invent her life. '' The Washington Post described the film as `` all decked out in Godfather kitsch, but underneath its loud exterior, a complex heroine struggles for freedom. '' Variety called the film `` fresh, colorful and inventive. '' Time Out wrote that although the film was `` relentlessly shallow, the performances, music and gaudy visuals provide a fizzy vitality for which many other directors would give their right arm. '' Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun - Times gave a more lukewarm review, but ended positively : `` Still, Married to the Mob is loaded with wonderful offbeat touches... ( and ) most assuredly does n't lack soul. '' Jonathan Demme 's direction was praised for its idiosyncrasy. The New York Times called him `` American cinema 's king of amusing artifacts : blinding bric - a-brac, the junkiest of jewelry, costumes so frightening they take your breath away. '' The Washington Post wrote that `` Jonathan Demme has nailed one with this playful, but dangerous, gangster farce. '' The acting performances were widely acclaimed, especially that of Michelle Pfeiffer in a star - making turn, `` her best performance to date. '' Richard Corliss in Time wrote that Pfeiffer was the `` emotional anchor to his ( Demme 's ) vertiginous sight gags. '' Variety claimed the `` enormous cast is a total delight, starting with Pfeiffer. '' The Washington Post called Pfeiffer a `` deft comedian... It 's her movie, and she graces it. '' Matthew Modine was `` winning, '' according to Variety. Supporting players Dean Stockwell and Mercedes Ruehl also received praise for their performances. The Washington Post described Ruehl 's character as `` majestic in her jealousy, stealing scenes but never the show from the sweetly determined Pfeiffer. '' Maslin in the New York Times thought that Pfeiffer and Modine were `` readily upstaged by Miss Ruehl and, especially, by Mr. Stockwell. His shoulder - rolling caricature of this suave, foppish and thoroughly henpecked kingpin is the film 's biggest treat. '' Variety described Stockwell as `` a hoot. '' Accolades Michelle Pfeiffer was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. Dean Stockwell was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and won awards in the same category from the National Society of Film Critics and the New York Film Critics Circle, both of which were also in honor of his work in Tucker : The Man and His Dream ( 1988 ). He also shared the Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor in a three - way tie with Martin Landau for Tucker : The Man and His Dream and Tom Cruise for Rain Man ( 1988 ). Mercedes Ruehl won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress. Awarding Body Award Nominee Result Academy Awards Best Supporting Actor Dean Stockwell nomination Golden Globe Awards Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Michelle Pfeiffer nomination Kansas City Film Critics Circle Best Supporting Actor Dean Stockwell winner ( tied with Martin Landau and Tom Cruise ) National Society of Film Critics Best Supporting Actor Dean Stockwell winner Best Supporting Actress Mercedes Ruehl winner New York Film Critics Circle Best Supporting Actor Dean Stockwell winner Music See : Married to the Mob ( soundtrack ) Goodbye Horses See also List of American films of 1988 References Jump up ^ `` Married to the Mob ''. Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved March 28, 2016. Jump up ^ `` Married to the Mob Movie Reviews, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes ''. rottentomatoes.com. Retrieved 2017 - 11 - 13. Jump up ^ `` Married to the mob reviews at Metacritic.com ''. metacritic.com. Retrieved 2009 - 11 - 08. ^ Jump up to : Maslin, Janet ( August 19, 1988 ). `` Movie Review - Married to the Mob - The Mob, to Have and to Hold ''. nytimes.com. ^ Jump up to : Kempley, Rita ( August 19, 1988 ). `` ' Married to the Mob ' ( R ) ''. washingtonpost.com. ^ Jump up to : `` Married to the Mob Review ''. variety.com. January 1, 1988. Jump up ^ `` Married to the Mob Review - Film - Time Out London ''. timeout.com. Retrieved 2009 - 11 - 06. ^ Jump up to : Ebert, Roger ( August 19, 1988 ). `` Married to the Mob : : rogerebert.com : : Reviews ''. rogerebert.suntimes.com. Jump up ^ Corliss, Richard ( August 22, 1988 ). `` Cinema : Mafia Princess, Dream Queen, MARRIED TO THE MOB - TIME ''. time.com. ^ Jump up to : `` Married to the Mob ( 1988 ) - Awards ''. imdb.com. Retrieved 2009 - 09 - 17. External links Married to the Mob on IMDb Married to the Mob at the TCM Movie Database Married to the Mob at AllMovie Married to the Mob at Box Office Mojo Married to the Mob at Rotten Tomatoes Married to the Mob at Metacritic Movieline interview with Dean Stockwell on the making of Married to the Mob Films directed by Jonathan Demme Caged Heat ( 1974 ) Crazy Mama ( 1975 ) Fighting Mad ( 1976 ) Handle with Care ( 1977 ) Last Embrace ( 1979 ) Melvin and Howard ( 1980 ) Who Am I This Time ? ( 1982 ) Swing Shift ( 1984 ) Stop Making Sense ( 1984 ) Something Wild ( 1986 ) Swimming to Cambodia ( 1987 ) Married to the Mob ( 1988 ) The Silence of the Lambs ( 1991 ) Cousin Bobby ( 1992 ) Philadelphia ( 1993 ) Storefront Hitchcock ( 1998 ) Beloved ( 1998 ) The Truth About Charlie ( 2002 ) The Agronomist ( 2003 ) The Manchurian Candidate ( 2004 ) Neil Young : Heart of Gold ( 2006 ) Man from Plains ( 2007 ) Rachel Getting Married ( 2008 ) Neil Young Trunk Show ( 2009 ) Neil Young Journeys ( 2011 ) A Master Builder ( 2013 ) Ricki and the Flash ( 2015 ) Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids ( 2016 ) Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Married_to_the_Mob&oldid=815064292 '' Categories : 1988 films English - language films 1980s comedy films American criminal comedy films American romantic comedy films American films Mafia comedy films Films directed by Jonathan Demme Films set in New York ( state ) Films set in Miami Orion Pictures films Adultery in films Talk Contents About Wikipedia Català Čeština Deutsch Español Français Italiano עברית Nederlands 日本 語 Norsk Polski Português Русский Simple English Српски / srpski Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски Svenska Türkçe Edit links This page was last edited on 12 December 2017, at 15 : 12. 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Question: who played karen in married to the mob
Answer: Nancy Travis