Although Kristin says she wants her “Under the Tuscan Sun” or “Eat.
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Worst of all is the half-hearted attempt to mix “chick flick” Italian iconography into the mob movie milieu. It’s the 'girl bossification' of the mafia. In the mafia family in which she now finds herself the Don, her male cousin feels entitled to be in charge, despite Kristin’s new ideas revitalizing the (still illegal) business. But it’s unclear if Kristin even knows her work is detrimental to women. Kristin is the best marketer at her pharmaceutical company, yet the three men she’s always in meetings with disregard her ideas in favor of babes on jet skis. Somewhere in here is a commentary on how women of a certain age are treated, but the film’s ideas are deeply rooted in outdated notions of female empowerment.
Instead, "Mafia Mamma" lives in the uncanny valley between incompetent and unwatchable. The Italian and clueless American stereotypes wouldn’t be so terrible if the film succeeded in being a satire, or at least the jokes were ever funny. However, “Mafia Mamma” is a premise in search of fleshed-out characters. Just when things look like they can’t get worse, her life changes irrevocably when her estranged grandfather dies, and she’s called to Italy for the funeral.Īfter the success of Hardwicke and Collette’s last collaboration, the wonderfully layered female friendship in 2015’s dramedy “ Miss You Already,” a re-teaming was definitely welcomed. Her only sexual gratification comes from watching Stanley Tucci’s show on Food Network. Her husband Paul (Tim Daish) is an unfaithful man-child in a mediocre band, her son Domenick ( Tommy Rodger) has just gone to college, and her job marketing beauty pharmaceuticals to cancer patients is as unfulfilling and soul-crushing as it sounds. Instead, we’re introduced to meek, perpetually-clad-in-beige helicopter mom Kristin ( Toni Collette, who also serves as producer). Feldman and Debbie Jhoon, based on a story by Amanda Sthers, does not focus on Bellucci’s mafia general Bianca.
Unfortunately, the film, directed by Catherine Hardwicke from a screenplay by Michael J. “This means war,” she says as she spits on the ground, and the film’s title “Mafia Mamma”-in “ The Godfather” font-is the finishing touch that lets us know just what kind of pastiche we’re in for. She spots a man with a gun in the distance. A woman in black stilettos walks through the carnage. Stereotypical Italian music-florid strings and soulful trumpets-swells as gunshots ring out and dead bodies and squashed tomatoes pile up around a gorgeous stone fountain.
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