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Mickey Blue Eyes

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They've created a mobster.

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 Vitale (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 (James Caan) Frank's 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 realise 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.

Also starring Burt Young as Vito Graziosi, James Fox as Philip Cromwell, Joe Viterelli as Vinnie "The Shrimp", Gerry Becker as Agent Connell, Maddie Corman as Carol, Tony Darrow as Angelo, Paul Lazar as Ritchie Vitale, Vinny Pastore as Al, Frank Pellegrino as Sante, Scott Thompson as FBI Agent Lewis, John Ventimiglia as Johnny Graziosi and Margaret Devine as Helen. Written by Adam Scheinman and Robert Kuhn, directed by Kelly Makin.

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Studios and distributors:

Warner Bros * Roadshow Films

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Theatrical report

Four wiseguys and a funny guy.

Mickey Blue Eyes is a vehicle for Hugh to play a ditzy Englishman in the crazy USA, getting himself and those around him into all sorts of trouble through hilarious cultural misunderstandings.

In other, less sarcastic, words: it's a pom-in-the-USA romantic comedy. As opposed to Four weddings and a funeral which is an American-in-the-UK romantic comedy. Oops, there's that sarcasm again.

This film is funny, occasionally very funny, entertaining, relaxed and comfortable. It takes no brains to watch it or to get the jokes. The bad guys are bad, the good guys are nice. Hugh toddles along in that incredibly bizarre way that only the English (and mad dogs) can: nothing really matters as long as one remembers that one is English. Gina is American and James is Italian-American.

Well, that about covers it. You know what kind of flick you're getting with Mickey Blue Eyes and you do.