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My Blue Heaven Movie

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FBI agent Barney Coopersmith is assigned to protect former Mafia figure turned informant Vincent Antonelli. In the witness protection program one is supposed to keep a low profile, but that is something that Antonelli has trouble doing. Coopersmith certainly has his hands full keeping Antonelli away from the Mafia hitmen who want to stop him testifying, not to mention the nightclubs...

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  • Steve Martin
  • Carol Kane
  • Joan Cusack
  • Jesse Bradford
  • Corey Carrier
  • Herbert Ross

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Tagline

- The stars of Parenthood in comedy about an urban hood finding suburbanhood.

- A comedy about a government witness who gives suburbia a culture shock.

User Reviews of My Blue Heaven

Name: rayvanschouten
One of Steve Martin's best characterisations and Rick Moranis is the perfect foil. The dialogues are brilliant with Steve so casual and Rick so strung-up. It's a long time since I saw this movie but it's one of those that leaves a lasting impression. Watching it with a great friend with the same sense of humour may have something to do with it as well!
Name: AussieJenni
I really enjoyed this one!!!!!!!!!!!! Herbert Ross directed this Nora Ephron-scripted buddy comedy starring Steve Martin, Rick Moranis, and Joan Cusack. Steve Martin plays Vinnie Antonelli, a street smart mobster who agrees to turn state's evidence and is forced to move to Fryburg, California as part of the witness relocation program. Rick Moranis plays the nebbish FBI agent Barney Coopersmith, who is assigned to help Vinnie adjust to small town life. Instead, Vinnie helps Barney come out of his shell, much to the consternation of divorced mother and relentless district attorney Hannah Stubbs (Joan Cusack).
Name: picker4693
Number One, Happy Street! This movie is just that: Happy. It's a farcical send up of mob movies in general and it succeeds so well. If you take this movie at face value, as a joke meant to make you laugh, it will give you all the enjoyment you need for ninety seven minutes of your life. The title refers to the blue sky, green grass, white picket fence suburbia that Vinnie Antonelli (Martin), a mob informant under the protection of the F.B.I.'s witness protection program, gets trasnplanted to. Unable to cope with his new existence and his rigid, by-the-books case officer, Barney Coopersmith (Moranis), he reverts to a life of crime with the help of other transplanted informants from his old life. Like a big fish in a little naive pond, everyone is a goldfish and Vinny and his newfound cohorts are a school of experienced piranhas. All isn't well of course, as his previous employers are trying to prevent him from reaching his court date and it's up to Barney, who's having trouble coping with him, to save him. The plot is enough for this movie to hang it's hat on. The real gems here are the characters and the energy with which the actors and actresses take to playing them. Steve Martin gives such an over-the-top performance that his hard to dislike Vinnie and Moranis plays his usual frustrated to confident underdog so well that you want to see him succeed like he does in the end. You like these characters. You find yourself thinking by the end that you wouldn't mind meeting them as real people. Same goes for the rest of the cast of characters. Joan Cusack's District Attorney, Hannah Stubbs, starts as obnoxious and antagonistic as comedy characters can get but you get to see behind her mask and you can't help but like where she ends up. Bill Irwin ingratiates himself with the audience by doing nothing more than dancing most of the time and Bill Hickey is just perfect as the cantankerous old cronie that reminds you of your grandfather...if he had been in the mob anyway. This isn't the best comedy every seen but it is a great one. It's silly and tongue-in-cheek at times. It has sentiment and caring. It's a good show. If I ever catch it on TV, I can't help but sit and watch. Entertaiment Value - 1 1/2 Stars: What can I say. I love this movie and I'm ashamed it isn't in my collection. Storytelling - 1 Star: Even for a somewhat tried and true genre, it pulls some surprises due to the fact that it is a comedy. Characters and Dialogue - 1 Star: It's the best part of the movie. Production Value - 1/2 Star: It has an almost surreal quality sometimes to the way suburbia "looks." So...clean. Direction and Editing - 1: I honestly can't see how they could do anything different really. [BTW, just to kind of point it out, and please correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that this movie really influenced later mob-themed movies with it's comedy such as Gun Shy and Analyze This. Am I wrong...was there anything quite like this before My Blue Heaven?]



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Movie Info

Year:
1990
IMDB Rating:
6
IMDB Votes:
7099
Countries:
USA
Genres:
Comedy
Tags:
Humor, Fbi, Mafia, Gangster, Fbi agent, Title based on song, Italian american, Witness protection

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