Mickey Blue Eyes, Hugh Grant, ...

WEDDING BELLE ''Mickey'''s Tripplehorn welcomes Grant into the family

Video Review

Mickey Blue Eyes

Dec 07, 1999
EW's GRADE
B-

Details Movie Rated: PG-13; Genre: Comedy; With: James Caan, Hugh Grant and Jeanne Tripplehorn

In Mickey Blue Eyes, Grant dutifully trots out his floppy-haired, bumbling Englishness as a fine-art auctioneer sucked in to the ''family business'' of his Mob-tied fiancée (Tripplehorn). He is aptly hapless and charming while, say, shoving a dead body into a car trunk, but really, haven't we seen this shtick before?

Reel Goodies Grant gets a lesson in goombah-speak from prospective father-in-law James Caan. The Last Detail The Mafiosi are a veritable who's who of gangster character actors, from the excellent Joe Viterelli (''Analyze This'') and Paul Lazar (''Married to the Mob'') to Tony Darrow (''GoodFellas'') and Vincent Pastore (''The Sopranos'').

Originally posted Dec 07, 1999
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