Delayed Reaction: Married to the Mob

What I Guessed It Was About: Michelle Pfeiffer gets married to a man who turns out to be in the mob and tries to find a way to accept this.

How I Came Into It: This is an awful strange movie to immediately precede the main movie that I know Demme for, The Silence of the Lambs. Given his other movies though, I think that Lambs is the outlier pick more than this movie is.

Why I Saw It: (Club 50) I've been getting a reminder lately of how famous Michelle Pfeiffer was at one point and this is an example of why. She is very strong here, with a deeper character than the movie requires. Dean Stockwell actually got an Oscar nomination for his performance, which wasn't undeserved, necessarily. You just don't see that kind of performance getting Oscar attention very often. Most of the supporting characters are such oversized roles that it all meshes better than it should.

Why I Wish I Hadn't: I don't get the amount of love this movie has. Rotten Tomatoes has it with a 91%. Granted, the audience rating is 48%, so maybe it just didn't age well. Regardless, this wasn't a particularly sophisticated comedy. I found the big showdown in the honeymoon sweet to be pretty clumsy. There's small moments that work in the movie, but the larger story is forgettable.

Verdict (?): Weakly Don't Recommend