It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Crappy film

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

At the 15 minute mark in the movie, Alex Baldwin gets killed in the Fantasia Motel room by Tony. If you watch the TV that is on in the room, GOLIATH AND THE DRAGON (1960), is playing. Mark Forest is shown in this movie without actually being in it. They show the scenes where he is fighting the bear. Larry Anderson, Canada.

The mobster 'Cucumber' Frank de Marco (Alec Baldwin) is married with the housewife Angela de Marco (Michelle Pfeiffer) and she in unhappy with their marriage and wants the divorce. Frank is having a love affair with Karen Lutnick (Nancy Travis), who is the mistress of his boss Tony 'The Tiger' Russo (Dean Stockwell). When Tony discovers their love affair, he kills them in a party. Tony is under surveillance of the FBI agents Mike Downey (Matthew Modine) and Ed Benitez (Oliver Platt) and during the wake, Tony kisses Angela. The agents and Tony's wife Connie Russo (Mercedes Ruehl) believe that the widow Angela is having an affair with Tony. Angela takes the opportunity to move from the suburbs to a small apartment in New York with her son. Meanwhile Mike bugs her apartment and soon they fall in love with each other. But Tony discovers her new address and courts her. Soon the FBI Senior Management blackmails Angela to force her to get close to Tony to help the FBI to arrest him and she discovers that Mike is an agent. Will Angela give a second chance to Mike?"Married to the Mob" is another great film from the 80's, directed by Jonathan Demme and with a story with comedy, romance and action. The chemistry between Michelle Pfeiffer and Matthew Modine is impressive but Mercedes Ruehl steals the show. There is cameo participation of famous people and this movie is still attractive and has not aged after being watched many times along almost thirty years. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "De Caso com a Máfia" ("In an Affair with the Mafia")

On the outside, Angela (Michelle Pfeiffer) and Frank de Marco (Alec Baldwin) is living a suburban life. But Frank is part of the mob. Angela is tired of the insular life of a mob wife, and wants to have just a normal life. She wants a divorce. Tony 'The Tiger' Russo (Dean Stockwell) is the boss. Both Tony and Frank have the same mistress Karen (Nancy Travis). So Tony kills them both and tries to move in on Angela as his new mistress but she moves away. Mike Downey (Matthew Modine) and Ed Benitez (Oliver Platt) are FBI agents who wonders if Angela is the new mistress.Director Jonathan Demme is making a comedy. I don't find much of it funny. I guess it's not that kind of ha-ha comedy. It uses all the mob stereotypes. Michelle Pfeiffer is accessing her inner Guido. It's an OK movie. Maybe it could have been better as a thrilling drama. As a comedy, I'm not sure at what or why we would be laughing.

A beautiful mafia widow; a lecherous mob boss; his hot-tempered Italian wife; and an FBI whiz kid: ad them all together with a soundtrack by David Byrne and you have another hip-to-distraction romantic comedy from director Jonathan Demme. The pace is swift; the characters are colorful; and the film benefits from a winning performance by Michelle Pfeiffer as the reluctant moll who wants to go straight. But underneath the cosmetic gloss are too many cracks (if not quite holes) in the plot, and at least one serious flaw: the casting of boyish Matthew Modine as a romantic leading man. Demme is, as usual, adept at juggling offhand humor with incidental violence, but the story moves in fits and starts, although there's a clue to suggest the script itself isn't entirely to blame: over the closing credits are tantalizing glimpses of outtakes which might have filled in the narrative blanks.