Sentences with phrase «of mob families»

A blackly comic and insidiously sly love story in the unforgiving underworld of mob families and freelance criminals, Prizzi's Honor plays like The Godfather stripped of its Shakespearean dimensions of underworld royalty and tragedy.

She's the matriarch of a mob family, keeps the secrets of a whole bunch of bad folks, and manages to make a mean ricotta pie.

She's the matriarch of a mob family, keeps the secrets of a whole bunch of bad folks, and...

The complaint claims Percoco went by the nickname «Herb» and referred to money as «ziti,» in the style of the mob family in HBO's The Sopranos.

Not exact matches

The delegates from Arabian countries may have been particularly mobbed, perhaps because wealthy families in the region are starting to put some of their considerable money into investments in entrepreneurs.

This May 21 fairy story is the nonsense of a Christian mob called Family Radio.

They also share never - before - heard stories and anecdotes from inside the most famous mob family of our day (like how to sneak meatballs to family members in prison).

In How to Use a Meat Cleaver: Secrets and Recipes from a Mob Family's Kitchen (February 4, 2014) the Graziano sisters share 100 of their favorite and most coveted family recipes, including: Sicillian - style codfish; lobster aragiatta; parmigiano - baked rigatoni with cauliflower, peas and prosciutto; penne with fried eggplant; Sunday gravy; tripe alla Romania; chicken with sausage, peppers and onions; veal osso bucco; escarole and beans; caponata; Sicillian rice balls, andFamily's Kitchen (February 4, 2014) the Graziano sisters share 100 of their favorite and most coveted family recipes, including: Sicillian - style codfish; lobster aragiatta; parmigiano - baked rigatoni with cauliflower, peas and prosciutto; penne with fried eggplant; Sunday gravy; tripe alla Romania; chicken with sausage, peppers and onions; veal osso bucco; escarole and beans; caponata; Sicillian rice balls, andfamily recipes, including: Sicillian - style codfish; lobster aragiatta; parmigiano - baked rigatoni with cauliflower, peas and prosciutto; penne with fried eggplant; Sunday gravy; tripe alla Romania; chicken with sausage, peppers and onions; veal osso bucco; escarole and beans; caponata; Sicillian rice balls, and more.

In recognition that families often face a lack of consistent support once they've left the hospital, The Milk Mob works towards creating Breastfeeding Friendly Medical Systems and Communities.

Family members of the late captain Maxwell Adam Mahama, who was a victim of a mob action, in Diaso in the Central region, believe Rev. Owusu Bempah lied about his divine interpretation over their son's murder.

Time to «Make America Great Again»... IMPEACH Treasonous Trump and «Lock him up» along with most of his mob / family.

Ms. Hormozi successfully prosecuted numerous high profile and difficult cases, including the conviction at trial of the Boss of the Bonnano Crime Family and the conviction at trial of the 2006 «Mafia Cops» case, involving two retired police detectives who acted as hit men for the mob.

There was talk that Raffa was an arsonist and his beating a mob hit; that five gallons of kerosene had been found in his car and had somehow disappeared from the station house; that «every cop in Brooklyn» knows the name of Raffa's assailant but higher - ups refuse to arrest him; that the car containing the combustible evidence was driven away from the scene by Cuomo's detective - bodyguard, who's a relative of the Cuomo family; that the police reports (DD5s) on the case were missing from headquarters; and that the governor was at the scene shortly after the incident and had used state troopers to erase any evidence of his father - in - law's possible criminality.

As the governor listened in shock, the woman urged him to run for president — even though, she explained, she'd heard that a member of his family was «involved» with the mob.

Captain Maxwell Mahama, who was lynched to death by a mob in Diaso in the Upper Denkyira West District of the Central Region, will be buried on Friday, the family spokespersons have said.

A Howard Beach newspaper publisher in debt to the mob attempted to threaten a woman out of pursuing sex assault claims against a Bonanno crime family associate, federal authorities said.

Captain Mahama's family made the request known during a courtesy call by the leadership of Parliament, where it expressed the hope that this monument would serve as a reminder of the tragedy and a deterrent to the canker of mob justice in Ghana.

Albeit a dance flash mob, for viewing pleasure, here's the flash mob video from one of my favorite shows, Modern Family:

When I think of flash mobs, I can't help but think of this flash mob dancing video below from the show, Modern Family (yes, it's worth watching).

In the first, a rabid mob hijacks the family minivan, a confrontation that peaks with the shot of a desperate hand clawing away at a bloodied bullet hole on the windshield.

With the Russian mob threatening his family, Ray finds himself on a road trip with Mickey to Primm, in hopes of recovering money stolen from a local casino owner.

The film is set in the 1930s and revolves around families with some involvement of the mob.

A case could be made for Gregory Peck in «To Kill a Mockingbird» or Marlon Brando in «The Godfather,» but they had other pressing obligations — one as a small - town lawyer taking a stand against racism and the other a mob kingpin whose idea of family goes beyond mere blood relatives.

It isn't long before the Restrelli family patriarch reveals to Tony that his brother was a victim of a mob hit — and that his family has long been enveloped in the tentacles of organized crime.

You play as a biracial Vietnam vet working your way through a corrupt New Orleans - style town to overthrow the mob that betrayed your family, and the story is rife with the open bigotry of the Civil Rights - era South.

Glenn Ford is the bland family man cop driven over the edge when the mob violently kills his wife in a hit meant for him (the scene is the first of the film's explosive eruptions of violence that tear through the placid poise of normalcy).

Unbeknownst to Tommy, Dion has to jump into the restaurant business as quickly as possible in order to square a debt with Patrick Woichik (a perfectly cast Michael Gladis), the son of a jailed mob boss who is operating the family business in his father's stead.

Kuklinski needs to maintain an air of quiet reserve on both fronts — his mob family and his real family counts on him for his sturdiness in taking care of business — and the act of killing chips away at his resolve.

Family man Matt Damon (wearing Establishment specs) gets into hot water with the mob and the insurance company after conspiring with his wife's sister (both wife and sister played by Julianne Moore)-- all of which unfolds against a backdrop of bigotry as their neighbors, a black family, are hatefully hounded and attacked by the rest of theFamily man Matt Damon (wearing Establishment specs) gets into hot water with the mob and the insurance company after conspiring with his wife's sister (both wife and sister played by Julianne Moore)-- all of which unfolds against a backdrop of bigotry as their neighbors, a black family, are hatefully hounded and attacked by the rest of thefamily, are hatefully hounded and attacked by the rest of the town.

Al Pacino stars as Michael Corleone in this dark side of the American dream story, rising from clean - cut son of New York Godfather Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando in an Oscar — winning performance) to ruthless mob leader to modern American businessman trying to pull his family's tentacles from the criminal world.

I was wondering what you guys would think of a sequel to THE GODFATHER PART III taking place in modern day in which the grandson of Michael Corleone is forced into the family business paralleling the arch of the first film in which Michael was forced into the mob.

Word around the small town quickly spread, and a vigilante mob of enraged locals surrounded the Sawyer stronghold, burning it to the ground and killing every last member of the family — or so they thought.

Family dynamics as crooked as they are, things worsen when Carolina (Juno Temple) returns home to her father Humpty after years of estrangement, having ran away from her mob boss husband and become a marked woman as a result.

That's the sort of aesthetic family resemblance a lightweight like Fleischer ought to milk for all it's worth, but hear him out: Sean Penn's enterprising mob boss Mickey Cohen, he insists, isn't a cartoon bruiser in the tradition of Al Pacino's Big Boy Caprice, but a real guy whose face only looks a little off because it's been molded by other men's fists.

Directed by Fritz Lang on a modest budget, the 1953 crime drama stars Glenn Ford as the workaday family - man cop driven over the edge when the mob violently kills his wife in a hit meant for him (the scene is the first of the film's explosive eruptions of violence that tear through the poise of normalcy).

When a guy is a drunken mess with no family who speak to him and only one friend — his old mob boss — a nickname like The Gravedigger tends to conjure better days of yore.

The movie centers on the Manzonis, a mob family who are relocated to Normandy, France as part of the witness protection program, though they soon find that leaving their old, violent, retaliatory ways behind is harder than they expected.

Doing the voice of the title character, a newborn infant whose insistent demands challenge the family life of his young parents, Baldwin plays to type: court jester for the angry Hillary mob.

WHAT: After small - town beautician Peggy Blumquist (Kristen Dunst) accidentally runs over the youngest son of the Gerhardt crime family, she unwittingly escalates a turf war between the Gerhardts and the Kansas City mob, dragging her loyal husband Ed (Jesse Plemons) and local sheriffs Lou Solverson (Patrick Wilson) and Hank Larsson (Ted Danson) into the conflict.

After a brutal stint in prison Rama finds himself caught between two mob families on the brink of warfare.

Matthias Schoenaerts («A Bigger Splash»), Garrett Hedlund («Inside Llewyn Davis») and Scoot McNairy («Argo») are all set to star in the Philadelphia mob tale «The Sound of Philadelphia»,» a story of family and loyalty set in the violent world of the Philadelphia mob.

VanBebber's freak flag flies proudest, though, in the moments between the freak - outs, as a particular, pungent variety of drunken puerile enthusiasm (the type that leads to mob violence, fraternities, and Focus on the Family) seeps off the screen and into our memories of our lowest, most frightened moments.

Franka Potente (Run Lola Run, The Bourne Identity) will recur as Zlata Ostrovsky, the newly reformed, former black sheep daughter of a powerful Russian mob family who does business in Florida.

Meanwhile, the agents» boss Stanley Locke (Andy Garcia) pieces together the connection between Sparazza and Israel to give the men a better idea of why the hit is so big, including information about a split in the family caused by Israel and the first FBI undercover officer to infiltrate the mob.

by Walter Chaw As executed by our pre-eminent insect anthropologist, David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises is more fairytale than thriller, one that finds new muse Viggo Mortensen as Nikolai, the rising star of an émigré Russian mob family taken root in the heart of London within the red velvet - lined walls of a restaurant innocuously - / romantically - named «Trans - Siberian.»

The stuntman extraordinaire is again joined by Chris Tucker (who plays LAPD Detective James Carter), and the two head for Paris to make chop suey out of an unsavory mob family.

As a response, Reggie attempts to console his caretaker by telling her that his family's driver has some sort of tie to the mob, and if she needs some help with her pestering ex, the driver could, as they say, «take care» of him.

Formerly titled «Run All Night» (both generic names if you ask us), the Brad Ingelsby (the upcoming «Out Of The Furnace» with Christian Bale and Casey Affleck)- penned thriller will find Neeson playing a mob hitman who has to take on his boss, protect his family and go on the run from the authorities with his estranged son, all in a single night.

Depp is FBI agent Joe Pistone in the true story of his years deep undercover with the mob and his conflicted psyche in having to bring down men to whom he became closer than family.

A young mayor in a small town finds herself in over her head when she tries to manage her dysfunctional family, a dying father, a town on the edge of bankruptcy, and some seriously suspicious mob ties.