Corky Romano (2001) on Netflix
Veterinary technician Corky Romano is the outcast son of Mafia boss Pops. With Pops facing racketeering charges, the family sends Corky to infiltrate the FBI office and destroy the evidence.
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- Rotten Tomatoes7%
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Plot summary
Corky Romano works at a veterinary clinic, banished from his family since his mother's death, and knows nothing of their criminal ties until his father calls. Pops is a Mafia crime lord under racketeering indictment, and he has decided the evidence against him must be destroyed. Bedridden at the family mansion, he persuades Corky to do it, since Corky's brothers Paulie and Peter are too well known in the underworld to walk into an FBI office. A hacker supplies a false identity, Agent Corky Pissant, and Corky gains access to the building. The office chief reads out the invented record: Harvard, five languages, expert sharpshooter and martial arts training called Jung Moo Kwon. Sent on raids and investigations, Corky stumbles into results that colleagues mistake for strategy, and he develops feelings for agent Kate Russo.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Corky Romano (2001)
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- In his 2019 autobiography Baby Don't Hurt Me, Chris Kattan claimed that Paul Thomas Anderson, writer-director of Boogie Nights and Magnolia, and Richard LaGravenese, screenwriter of The Fisher King, each helped rewrite the script for Corky Romano, receiving no official credit.
- The nickname Corky is alleged to be taken from the real-life New Jersey mobster Gaetano Vastola, whose nickname among the mafia ranks as a street soldier was Corky.
