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MICKEY BLUE EYES (PG-13)

Reviewed August 22, 1999 - Check out the Mickey Blue Eyes Website.

Studio Synopsis: Michael Felgate (Hugh Grant), an elegant, debonair Englishman who runs an auction house in New York, is head-over-heels in love for the first time in his life. After only three months of dating his beautiful girlfriend Gina (Jeanne Tripplehorn), Michael gathers up his courage and proposes marriage. But, to Michael's shock and chagrin, Gina declares that, though she loves Michael very much, she can never marry him. Michael pursues Gina to her father Frank's (James Caan) restaurant in Little Italy, where Michael introduces himself to a tight-knit and tight-lipped group of Italian-American men who treat Frank with more than the usual respect. As Frank welcomes his potential son-in-law with open arms, Michael begins to realize that by marrying Gina, he may not just become a member of her family -- he may become a member of The Family. And Gina refuses to have another of her boyfriends become corrupted and embroiled in her family's gangster life. So, to win the hand of the woman he loves, Michael bravely embarks on a mission to thwart the intentions of The Mob. Soon, however, thanks to Gina's charming father, Michael inadvertently launders money through his auction house, becomes an accessory to murder and masquerades in certain New York circles as a tough wiseguy from Kansas City: the notorious Mickey Blue Eyes.

Fuzzydog Review: Mickey Blue Eyes is a fish-out-of-water mob comedy that follows in the tradition of such truly entertaining films as Married To The Mob, The Freshman, and most recently Analyze This.  Fans of Hugh Grant will find his usual English charms shining through once again, with James Caan providing a terrific performance as the well-intentioned mobster dad who just wants his daughter to be happy.  As mindless weekend entertainment, this film does just fine; however, it does suffer in comparison to the other mob comedies just mentioned.  You'll get a handful of side-splitting laughs in Mickey Blue Eyes, with stretches of relatively uninteresting (dare I say, boring) storytelling in between.  Unfortunately, this film is painfully predictable from beginning to end, with Michael and Gina's relationship never really feeling believable.  Catch this one on video, there's better picks playing on the big screen right now.