In an attempt to track down mafia boss, Mike, a young courageous and intelligent FBI agent, who falls in love with a widow of a mafia boss, the thing that challenges him.
This is gangster life played for screwball comedy but the culture isn't all that different than what Martin Scorsese would present in Goodfellas just a couple of years later, right down to the colorful names like Vinnie The Slug...
Miss Pfeiffer, who looks utterly ravishing in outfits that set the teeth on edge, turns Angela's plight into something funny, but she seems eminently sane even when the movie does not.
Rita Kempley
Washington Post
January 01, 2000
A mix of goofy ethnicity, romance and self-discovery, "Married to the Mob" is an offer you can't refuse.
Pfeiffer is at her best, and there's plenty of action, although you may feel that some of the gags involving a scorned and vengeful wife (Mercedes Ruehl) are a bit shopworn.
