The Kitchen (2019) on Netflix
In 1978 Hell's Kitchen, Kathy Brennan, Ruby O'Carroll and Claire Walsh are married to Irish mob men. With their husbands jailed, the wives take over collecting protection money themselves.
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- Rotten Tomatoes23%
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Plot summary
Kathy Brennan, Ruby O'Carroll and Claire Walsh are each married to a man in the O'Carroll crime family, which runs Hell's Kitchen in 1978. Kathy's husband Jimmy wants out of the mob, Ruby's husband Kevin is the son of boss Helen O'Carroll, and Claire's husband Rob beats her. FBI agents catch the three men during a robbery, and each receives a three-year term. Jack Quinn, known as Little Jackie, takes Kevin's place in the family and leaves the wives barely enough to live on. The women learn that local businesses pay the family protection money but get nothing back, so they persuade the owners to pay them instead, with Kathy's cousin Duffy and her friend Burns working as enforcers, and the neighborhood begins to respect them.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Kitchen (2019)
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- Tiffany Haddish signed on as one of the film's three female leads in November 2017, straight off her breakthrough performance in Girls Trip.
- Projected to gross $9 to $14 million on its opening weekend, the film played at 2,742 theaters, the smallest wide release of McCarthy's career, and after making $1.8 million on its first day estimates were lowered to $5 to $6 million.
- The film debuted to $5.5 million, the worst opening weekend of both McCarthy and Haddish's careers, dropped 60 percent to $2.2 million and was pulled from 2,125 theaters in its third weekend with just $342,506; The Hollywood Reporter estimated it would lose tens of millions for the studio.
