Mickey Blue Eyes (1999) on Netflix
PG-1319991h 42mComedyCrimeRomance
Michael Felgate, an English auctioneer, asks Gina Vitale to marry him. Her father Frank and much of her family are Mafia gangsters, and she fears Michael being pulled into their world.
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Plot summary
Michael Felgate is an English auctioneer who manages the Cromwell auction house in New York City. He asks his girlfriend Gina Vitale to marry him, and is disheartened when she turns him down. Gina explains that her father Frank belongs to a Mafia crime family, as do many of her uncles and cousins, and she is afraid the family will pull Michael into its world. Michael promises her that will not happen. The engagement party is barely over before he becomes mixed up, without knowing it, in a money laundering scheme, and the FBI begins to take an interest in him.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Mickey Blue Eyes (1999)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The film is mentioned in the Season 2 Sopranos episode "D-Girl", when Amy Safir explains to Christopher Moltisanti that there is no longer a demand for mob-related scripts because of the relative box-office failure of this contemporary film.
- The film went on to gross $33.9 million in the United States and a total of $54.3 million worldwide, but according to the Los Angeles Times it was still a "marginal money loser".
- Elizabeth Hurley, one of the film's producers, was Hugh Grant's girlfriend at the time, so the leading man's real-life partner was among the people putting the picture together behind the camera.
- The film's title comes from Michael being forced to impersonate a gangster, a character who is spontaneously named "Kansas City Little Big Mickey Blue Eyes" during the deception.
