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Robert DeNiro, Michelle Pfeiffer, And The Mafia

Robert DeNiro, Michelle Pfeiffer, And The Mafia

Most movie websites that follow a ‘shoot-them-up’ actor talk about an actor’s kill number in a particular movie. Robert DeNiro’s kill numbers over his career are a truly amazing discussion.

The Family, opening on your doorstep this weekend, is not the light comedy that the previews depicted. It is a volatile, disfigure and murder fest. DeNiro informs on his ex-Mafia friends in New York and then escapes to hide in Normandy. That is somewhere quiet in Europe! As Julia Roberts said in Pretty Woman….Big mistake, very big mistake. DeNiro is writing his mafia memoirs while in hiding. It is like Goodfellas revisited.

Along with Michelle Pfeiffer (his wife), Diane Argron (his teenage daughter), and John D’Leo (his teenage son), the family is trying to survive ‘Witness Protection’ with the help of Tommy Lee Jones. None of the family members are angels. The movie’s kill and maim numbers are outrageous. Even mom and the kids get into the act.

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By the end of the movie three FBI agents, the fire department, the police department, 12 Mafioso, four school children, four neighbors, a butcher, and a plumber have been dispatched or hospitalized. We left out a lot in this list, so the movie won’t be spoiled for you. Church going friends said they liked the movie. A packed theater did, too.

A special note should be mentioned about Diane Argron from the television show Glee. Her agent is putting her in movies with great actors around her. They realize she is not ready for a big time starring role yet. She does do well interacting with DeNiro and Pfeiffer throughout this one, though.

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Steve McQueen And Faye Dunaway…Re-colored From 1968

The original The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) was a classic movie for story, fashion, and cinematic firsts. It starred Steve McQueen as a dashing Boston millionaire that planned intricate bank robberies just for his own amusement.

Faye Dunaway is the insurance investigator that will outsmart McQueen and Paul Burke, the Boston detective that is also looking for the bank robbers and their mastermind. Boston street scenes and Cape Cod give the movie an artistic look. However, the first real scene-stealers in 1968 were the ten different trend-setting outfits Faye Dunaway wore in the movie.

The second cinematic first was seeing the opening sequences as five different bank robbers appear in frames on the larger screen progressing to their bank rendezvous. You are following all five at once as they control different aspects of the robbery.

Rene Russo’s and Pierce Brosnan’s recent remake have a similar storyline, but this time an art museum is being robbed. The two versions are worth a look-see. Russo’s one dress was the talk of the second movie.

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