MARRIED TO THE MOB ***

"Married to the Mob". This highly enjoyable movie, (it deserves to be better known), is like a comic version of "Goodfellas" from the perspective of the wives. Alec Baldwin, (young and handsome, back then), is the gangster cut from the same cloth as Ray Liotta in Scorsese's
picture and Michelle Pfeiffer, (terrific), is his wife tired of being in 'the family' and wanting out. When he's bumped off she thinks her chance may have come only to find that she's 'married to the mob'. Mr Big is a brilliant Dean Stockwell, (he was Oscar-nominated), and the great cast also includes Matthew Modine, Mercedes Ruehl and Joan Cusack. The director was Jonathan Demme before he got serious and the whole movie is infused with a lovely pop-art glow.