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Released
1988 · FILM

Married to the Mob

A widowed mobster’s wife fights to protect her son and start a new life while the ruthless crime boss hunts her and an undercover FBI agent manipulates her for his own agenda.

“They're her family... Whether she likes it or not.”

Directed by
Jonathan Demme
Written by
Barry Strugatz, Mark R Burns
Runtime
104 min
ComedyCrimeRomance
Streaming on
  • The Criterion Channel

Synopsis

Angela de Marco is frustrated with her husband's involvement in organized crime and wishes to distance herself from the criminal world. After her husband is murdered for having an affair with the mistress of mob boss Tony "The Tiger" Russo, Angela and her son move to New York City in an attempt to rebuild their lives. However, Tony Russo turns his attention toward Angela, and an undercover FBI agent also becomes interested in using her to take down the mob boss.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Craig MckayShot by Tak FujimotoScored by David ByrneDesigned by Kristi Zea

Box Office

1988 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 2.1× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$21.5M

Budget$10.0M
Worldwide gross$21.5M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $3.2M — 15% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $5.1M — 24% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 824 theaters

Also known as

  • Die Mafiosi-Brautde
  • Veuve mais pas tropfr
  • Una vedova allegra... ma non troppoit

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