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Mafia!
Directed by	Jim Abrahams
Produced by	Peter Abrams Robert L. Levy
Written by	Jim Abrahams Greg Norberg Michael McManus
Starring
Music by	Gianni Frizzelli
Cinematography	Pierre Letarte
Edited by	Terry Stokes
Distributed by	Buena Vista Pictures
July 24, 1998
84 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$10 million^[1]
Box office	$30.1 million^[1]

Mafia!, also known as Jane Austen's Mafia!, is a 1998 comedy film directed by Jim Abrahams and starring Jay Mohr, Lloyd Bridges (in one of his final films), Olympia Dukakis and Christina Applegate.

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The film spoofs Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather series and various other mafia films, notably Martin Scorsese's Casino (1995). It also parodies films in other genres, ranging from Forrest Gump to Il Postino and The English Patient.

Plot[edit]

Like the 1974 film The Godfather Part II, the narrative of Mafia! consists of a series of flashbacks interwoven with the main plot. Tony is the son of a prominent Mafia don, Vincenzo Armani Windbreaker Cortino. As the film opens, Tony introduces the main thread when he exits a Vegas casino and walks to his car, accompanied by a voiceover explaining his philosophy of life. When he starts the car, it explodes.

The story then regresses more than half a century to describe the boyhood of Tony's father, Vincenzo, who was born in Italy, the clumsy son of a Sicilian postman. One day, while making a delivery for his father, Vincenzo trips and the parcel bursts open, revealing a strange white powder. The parcel's recipient, concluding that the delivery boy has seen too much, tracks Vincenzo to a street fair, where he kills his father. The boy escapes to America, where he grows to young manhood, marries, and struggles with poverty before finally finding his destiny as a mafia boss.

The film then visits the recent past; Tony has just returned from the Korean War and is bringing his idealistic Protestant girlfriend, Diane, to meet his family and friends at his big brother Joey's wedding reception (a parody of Connie Corleone's wedding in the beginning of the 1972 film The Godfather). During the festivities, however, Vincenzo is shot 47 times in an attempted hit and nearly dies. Tony announces his intention to kill Gorgoni, a drug lord with whom Vincenzo had refused to do business before the attack. Diane leaves him, saying he's abandoned the peaceful ideals of his youth, and adding that she'll never be anything to his Sicilian family but 'that Protestant chick who never killed anyone.' Tony avenges the attack, then goes into hiding in Las Vegas, where Cesar Marzoni offers him the opportunity to manage his casino, The Peppermill. Tony accepts and his casino is a great success until he meets a femme fatale, Pepper Gianini, hired by Marzoni as part of a deep-laid plan to distract him from his duties and to drive a wedge between him and Joey.

Vincenzo recovers from his 47 gunshot wounds and visits Las Vegas, where he officially names Tony his successor. Joey, furious at being passed over, is told 'You get Wisconsin.' The Don then returns home, where he falls victim to his 5-year-old grandson, Chucky, who assassinates him by spraying him with malathion (parody of Vito Corleone's heart attack in The Godfather). The film returns to the present after Tony catches Joey and Pepper cavorting in a hotel room together and walks out in disgust - only to have his car explode.

Tony is horribly but temporarily disfigured, and attends his father's funeral in a wheelchair, where he spots the killers when he sees little Chucky taking a payoff. However, he decides to postpone vengeance until he can win back Diane's love and put his life in order. Diane has by this time become President of the United States, and is on the brink of declaring total world disarmament when Tony goes looking for her. He persuades her to put world peace on the back burner until after their wedding. During the ceremony, with the help of Vincenzo's mother (Dukakis), several henchmen, and an Eskimo, he settles the family's accounts in an orgy of slaughter (filmed similarly to the end of The Godfather), even arranging the harpooning of Barney the Dinosaur as a bonus.

Cast[edit]

Jay Mohr as Anthony 'Tony' Cortino
Lloyd Bridges as Vincenzo Armani Windbreaker Cortino
- Louis Mandylor as young Vincenzo
- Jason Fuchs as Vincenzo Cortino as a boy
Christina Applegate as Diane Steen
Billy Burke as Joey Cortino
Pamela Gidley as Pepper Gianini
Olympia Dukakis as Sophia Cortino
- Sofia Milos as young Sophia
Joe Viterelli as Dominick Clamato
Tony Lo Bianco as Cesar Marzoni
Blake Hammond as Fatso Paulie Orsatti
Phil Suriano as Frankie Totino
Vincent Pastore as Gorgoni
Marisol Nichols as Carla
Carol Ann Susi as Mrs. Clamato
Gregory Sierra as Bonifacio
Catherine Lloyd Burns (uncredited) as Woman in Vegas Show

Release[edit]

Box office[edit]

In its opening weekend the film took $6,577,961 in 1,942 theatres, averaging $3,387. In total in the US, the film made $19,889,299.^[2]

Critical reception[edit]

Mafia! received generally negative reviews with a 14% 'rotten' rating on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes based on 42 reviews and a 4/10 rating.^[3]

James Berardinelli of ReelViews wrote

Airplane! and The Naked Gun ..., two early entries into what has become a thriving comedy subgenre, worked in large part because the humor was fresh. Now, countless movies later, many of the jokes seem recycled, even when they aren't. ... Mafia! ... has its funny moments, but, in the wake of the hilarious There's Something About Mary, it seems more than a little lame. ... The volume of jokes is extremely high, presumably as a form of insurance—if one fails, maybe the next will succeed. The problem is, Mafia! contains too many duds. And, when you're not laughing, you start to realize how little this film has to offer beyond the diluted humor. ... Mafia! isn't a terrible film, and it will probably provoke at least a burst or two of laughter from even the most grim viewer. On the whole, however, it's a weak parody that is better suited to video viewing than a theatrical experience.^[4]

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times, who gave the film two out of four stars, wrote

Yes, I laughed during Jim Abrahams' Mafia!, but even in mid-chortle I was reminded of the gut-busting experience last week of seeing There's Something About Mary. It is the new movie's misfortune to arrive after, instead of before, the funniest comedy of the year. ... Mafia! is the kind of movie that can never entirely fail, but can succeed to various degrees. It doesn't rank with Abraham's earlier efforts. And in a town where There's Something About Mary is playing, it's not the one to choose.^[5]

Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly wrote

There are a handful of laughs in Mafia!, but most of the movie feels oddly repressed. ... The underworld gags are limited and repetitive, without the ripely promiscuous media-age lunacy that, in a comedy like The Naked Gun, made you feel as if the film were tickling funny bones you never even knew existed. Jay Mohr, as the Michael Corleone surrogate, and Billy Burke, as his psycho-hothead brother, don't even look the part—they're like preppies clowning in a Harvard spoof—and so the film gets virtually no lift from its performers. ... Still, when Mohr's Anthony Cortino grabs his brother's head and gives him the kiss of death, leaving a bright red smear of lipstick ... well, we may all know this genre's tricks too well by now, but that doesn't mean they can't make you smile.^[6]

References[edit]

^ ^a^b'Jane Austen's Mafia - Box Office Data'. The Numbers. Retrieved 13 July 2012.
^'Mafia!'. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved February 11, 2012.
^'Mafia!'. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved February 11, 2012.
^Berardinelli, James. 'Mafia!'. Reelviews. Retrieved February 11, 2012.
^Ebert, Roger (July 24, 1998). 'Mafia!'. Chicago Sun-Times. Chicago, Illinois: Sun-Times Media Group. Retrieved February 11, 2012 – via rogerebert.com.
^Gleiberman, Owen (July 31, 1998). 'Mafia!'. Entertainment Weekly. New York City: Meredith Corporation. Retrieved February 11, 2012.

External links[edit]

Jane Austen's Mafia! on IMDb
Jane Austen's Mafia! at AllMovie
Jane Austen's Mafia! at Rotten Tomatoes

Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mafia!&oldid=999467298'

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Mr. Bigglesworth is based on Blofeld’s cat.
Austin Powers’ very hairy chest is a nod to Sean Connery’s.
Dr. Evil has a ring that looks a lot like the SPECTRE ring.
Both Dr. Evil and Blofeld are known for their Nehru jackets.
Dr. Evil’s obsession with sharks is just like many Bond villains’s similar obsession (Blofeld, Largo, Sanchez, etc.)

Dr. No References

When Austin Powers is first dethawed there is a “urination scene” in which the set looks just like the set from the “decomanination scene” on Dr. No’s island.
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When the laser is being fired into the earth’s core, Dr. Evil wears a protective suit that looks just like Dr. No’s

From Russia With Love References

Frau Farbissina is based on Rosa Klebb.
When we first see Dr. Evil we do not see his face. Rather, we just see him stroking his white Persian cat. This is a spoof of the first time we see Blofeld.

Goldfinger References

Random Task is based on Oddjob. They look the same and while Oddjob throws his bowler hat, Random Task throws a shoe.
Alotta Fagina is based on Pussy Galore.
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Thunderball References

Number 2 is based on Largo and they both have eye patches.
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The entire plot of hijacking a nuclear weapon and holding the world hostage is based on Thunderball.
Dr. Evil has a device that controls the chairs of his subordinates in his lair, just like Blofeld does in Paris.
In the deleted “Raft Ending” that features Austin and Vanessa in a liferaft, Bond turns to Vanessa and says “this is how ALL my movies end, baby!”