Trivia / Married to the Mob

• Hey, It's That Place!: The New York apartment complex Angela moves to was also used in Child's Play.
• Inspiration for the Work: Mark R. Burns got the idea to write a mob movie when he was ten years old, a house in his suburban Long Island neighborhood was raided, and the father was discovered to have been in the mob.
• Method Acting: Dean Stockwell stayed in character the entire time during shooting.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The filmmakers did six rewrites to convince Tom Cruise to play Mike. Cruise opted for Cocktail instead.
  • Ray Liotta turned down the role of Frank "The Cucumber" de Marco.
  • Jessica Lange was the filmmakers' first choice to play Angela.
  • The climatic scene in the honeymoon suite was originally written to take place in the Everglades.

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