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There's a running joke in Mafia Mamma about main character Kristin Balbano (Toni Collette) never having seen the Godfather movies, but Kristin reacts so inexplicably...
Mafia Mama has some comic moments as the Balbanos war with the Romanos and, during the mayhem, Kristin brasses up her wardrobe to Valentino.
Review: The incomparable Toni Collette saves Mafia Mamma, an otherwise generic comedy from director Catherine Hardwicke.
This is something of a good-natured romp that plays on inverted expectations when naive American housewife Kristin – played by Toni Collette – inherits leadership of Italian mafia gang the Balbanos.
"Eat, Pray,Love" meets "Under the Tuscan Sun" and "Godfather" when Toni Collette heads a crime family.