before hitting international acclaim with the silence of the lambs and director jonathan demme cut his teeth making quirky comedies. this was one of them and like quite a few oscar winning american comedies i could mention and it has a fine concept and is well paced and has great performances and a complicated romance. but it just simply isn not very funny. pfeiffer is mob widow who moves to the city backwaters after her husband (baldwin) is murdered. the crime boss who killed him (stockwell) takes a fancy to pfeiffer and his wife (reuhl) is furious and to complicate matters pfeiffer also falls for the cop who is trailing her. all of this should have been a laugh a minute. pfeiffer and sporting a hefty wig is excellent as the widow and as is the hyperactive ruehl and modine is good too as the nice cop. but the script is simply devoid of one liners and wit and humour or punch lines of the verbal or physical kind that this kind of film demands. the result is it raises smiles at best rather than guffaws. it oozes charm and but is tediously short on humour. 
before hitting international acclaim with the silence of the lambs and director jonathan demme cut his teeth making quirky comedies. this was one of them and like quite a few oscar winning american comedies i could mention and it has a fine concept and is well paced and has great performances and a complicated romance. but it just simply isn not very funny. pfeiffer is mob widow who moves to the city backwaters after her husband (baldwin) is murdered. the crime boss who killed him (stockwell) takes a fancy to pfeiffer and his wife (reuhl) is furious and to complicate matters pfeiffer also falls for the cop who is trailing her. all of this should have been a laugh a minute. pfeiffer and sporting a hefty wig is excellent as the widow and as is the hyperactive ruehl and modine is good too as the nice cop. but the script is simply devoid of one liners and wit and humour or punch lines of the verbal or physical kind that this kind of film demands. the result is it raises smiles at best rather than guffaws. it oozes charm and but is tediously short on humour. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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