While not exactly offering fresh or positive stereotypes about Italian people, it’s meant to be a lightweight comedy spoof of The Godfather and that type of movie in general, and that’s what you get in this straight-to-streaming-in-the-UK product.Ĭollette plays Kristin, who works for a male-driven cosmetic company which rarely listen to her ideas her unfaithful husband has got the musical ambitions of a man half his age, and her kid is about to flee the nest. Despite the title, this is nothing to do with Abba’s greatest hits Mafia Mamma is about an American mother who unexpectedly finds herself leading an Italian crime family into a pitched battle with their rivals.
Yikes! Catherine Hardwicke slips into a quite different mode from her best known text to date, YA smash Twilight, as director of this straight-up silly comedy vehicle for the multi-talented Toni Collette.
