Rob the Mob (2014)
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Critics Consensus: Bolstered by a pair of likable leads and suffused in a warmly nostalgic glow, Rob the Mob is an uneven crime caper that mostly works.
Critics Consensus: Bolstered by a pair of likable leads and suffused in a warmly nostalgic glow, Rob the Mob is an uneven crime caper that mostly works.
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New York City, 1991. Small-time crooks TOMMY (Pitt) and ROSIE (Arianda) have two things in common: a crazy-passionate love for one another and-after they're caught robbing a florist on Valentine's Day-prison records. Trying to go straight, Rosie lands a job at a debt-collection agency and persuades Tommy to join her. But soon Tommy is skipping his shifts to do something much more interesting-attend the landmark trial of Mafia hit man Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, whose graphic testimony could … More- Rating:
- R (for pervasive language, some sexual material and brief drug use)
- Genre:
- Drama , Comedy
- Directed By:
- Raymond De Felitta
- Written By:
- Jonathan Fernandez
- In Theaters:
- Mar 21, 2014 Limited
- On DVD:
- Jun 24, 2014
- US Box Office:
- $0.2M
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Cast
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Michael Pitt
as Tommy Uva -
Nina Arianda
as Rosie -
Andy Garcia
as Big Al -
Ray Romano
as Jerry Cardozo -
Griffin Dunne
as Dave Lovell -
Michael Rispoli
as Sal
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Critics Consensus: Divergent Disappoints
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Critic Reviews for Rob the Mob
All Critics (36) | Top Critics (14) | Fresh (30) | Rotten (6)
It's a story so outlandish that it needs to be served by a combination of drama and comedy, and "Rob the Mob" finds that balance quite well.
As Tommy and Rosie, Pitt and Arianda are just the right kind of nuts, the right kind of dumb, the right kind of desperate and the right kind of in love to make it all go down like pie.
De Felitta has a feel for this world and its atmosphere, from the clutter and casual ugliness of the streets, to the insularity of the mentality, to the unexpected sweetness and vulnerability of the people.
One of the pleasures of Rob the Mob, director Raymond De Felitta's serio-comic crime drama, is watching Pitt and Arianda as the rambunctious, lovestruck pair who can't believe the scam they've stumbled upon.
"Rob the Mob" skims over the lifted-from-the-headlines exploits of an outlaw couple and gleans a humanist drama steeped in sentimentality.
A romance about two down-and-outers that reveals the workings of a whole citywide ecosystem of crime and punishment.
By far one of the most fun mob thrillers we've seen in some time.
Irresistible performances and a bizarre true story make for good entertainment
The f-bombs are hurled, but lovingly.
Arianda is warm and sharp and a paragon of cliché avoidance.
The movie is full of quirky, usually worthwhile digressions (Andy Garcia has an expansive part as a mob boss) that add to its offbeat tone, further abetted by interesting musical choices and a very nice score by Stephan Endelman.
The whole of 'Rob the Mob' fits [director Raymond] De Fellita's sensibility, which is big and warm and welcoming.
...a highly entertaining film up until about the last 15 minutes when it loses all its pace and slows down to a plodathon...that almost completely destroys what came before.
The problem here is that the film wavers between free-flowing comedic chaos and melodramatic poignancy -- it's much more successful with the former.
While Rob The Mob doesn't ultimately hold together, it isn't for a lack of trying by the performers or the filmmakers [...]
Thanks to stellar performances from Pitt and Arianda, Rob the Mob works as both a deceptively complex mafia epic and as a wildly entertaining, Bonnie and Clyde-esque romance.
Carefully balancing stereotypes with tasteful comedy, De Felitta has his three leads and a generally refreshing screenplay to thank for making Rob The Mob a joy to watch.
A fun and jaunty crime flick that works really well when it's focused on its two winsome leads.
Arianda and Pitt are a fantastic team... But just when it seems like this is a potential "Sid & Nancy"-like portrait of a fringe, manic, grungy couple they become surrounded by extra garbage storylines.
Breezy, sleazy, and sometimes-intense, "Rob the Mob" depicts a very specific sliver of time in New York history, a time overrun by crack, graffiti, and omnipresent organized crime.
Audience Reviews for Rob the Mob
True Crime. True Love. True Story.
Good Film! There's nothing spectacularly creative about the story here...Excepting it's a pretty spectacular story which actually happened yet most of us, outside of NYC, never heard of. A true story told almost as straightforward as Hollywood can tell anything true which is to say: "sure, it's romanticized, but in a quite palatable way". The fact this is a true story defies all conventional beliefs about The Mob's armor plated invincibility. The real meat of the story is how the blind naiveté of a small time kid with criminal tendencies can decimate the entire hierarchy of that famed Sicilian institution, even doing so in an almost comic fashion. Like all organized crime, even if you cut off the head and most of the body there's always those who remain ready to step up. There's the problem and the viewer just knows this really might go on for a short time, but there will be a reckoning to be dealt with. In spite of this predictability It's an entertaining ride with the gore pretty much parked at the door. It simply is a very solid movie that works and isn't in any way "another mob movie". Rob The Mob has a real heart front and center of which Pitt and Arianda are to be commended for. See this one as it is very good.
A Queens couple who specialize in robbing mafia social clubs stumble upon a score bigger than they could ever imagine, becoming targets of both the mob and the FBI in the process.
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"Rob the Mob" starts with Tommy(Michael Pitt) and Rosie(Nina Arianda) madly in love and robbing a florist for which they are promptly arrested. While Tommy is in jail, Rosie gets a job at a collection agency for which she recommends Tommy upon his release to her boss, Dave Lovell(Griffin Dunne), himself an ex-con. But soon after moving in together, they realize how little their paychecks from their straight jobs will go. That plus with a little inspiration from John Gotti's trial has Tommy looking for more illicit and lucrative opportunities.
With great chemistry from its leads, "Rob the Mob" is a highly engaging movie that mixes suspense and comedy well.(The collection agency is pure sit-com gold.) The movie is about two true life criminals who have much more gumption than brains. To its credit, it lets the viewers make up their about whether or not Tommy and Rosie are heroes. Aiding that is a performance from Michael Pitt who is not afraid to mine the darker depths of his character. At the same time, the movie could have just easily done as well without Ray Romano.
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Finally a crime drama with a fresh approach, directed by Raymond De Felitta and written by Jonathan Fernandez. I cannot believe how charming were the stars Michael Pitt as Tommy and Nina Arianda as Rosie and that acting power they displayed was visible with the most of the cast including Andy García, Ray Romano, Aida Turturro, Frank Whaley, Michael Rispoli and Joseph R. Gannascoli.
The story of a young couple who targets the Mafia for heists and stumbles upon something big at an underground club was to be wished for in a crime drama! Our heroes show a crazy-passionate love for one another and-after they're caught robbing a florist on Valentine's Day-prison records. Rosie is trying to stay away from trouble and gets a job at a debt-collection agency and persuades Tommy to join her. Tommy won't last long on that job because he starts skipping his shifts to do something much more interesting - to attend the landmark trial of Mafia hit man Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, whose graphic testimony could finally bring down flamboyant Gambino-family boss John Gotti. Inspired by true events, it is like piece of history itself.
I recommend this to everybody who likes a good true-life story of a crazy-in-love Queens/Bronx couple who robbed a series of mafia social clubs and got away with it... for a while... You will enjoy action, good humour and lots of twists and excitements!
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