I just watched this movies and I thought it was hilarious. John Fiore does a great job in the role of Johnny Slade a wannabe lounge singer who ends up working for a mob boss in his new club unknowingly for awhile helping him do his dirty work. The songs are hilarious and the outcomes is funny. Although this movie is low budget you couldn't tell. The filming and the directing are well done and the acting is very professional with great team of actors like John Fiore, Richard Portnow and Vincent Curatola that make this movie worth seeing. I recommend this movie to anyone who would loves comedies. Looks for this movie at your local video store or buy a copy from Amanzon
Meet the Mobsters
2005
Action / Comedy / Crime / Music
Meet the Mobsters
2005
Action / Comedy / Crime / Music
Plot summary
Down-and-out lounge singer Johnny Slade is hired by a mystery man to open a hot new club, the catch being he's given a new--and terrible--song to sing each night. Noticing that whenever he sings one a new crime is committed, Johnny gradually realizes his songwriter-benefactor is a powerful mob boss in hiding and his "Greatest Hits" are the only way the man can give orders to his crew...
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This is a great movie..
Have FUN and LAUGH
John Fiore and Frank Santorelli - as well as the rest of cast - are a RIOT to watch (call the cops!) in this wonderfully crazy comical adventure. Portnow, Curatola, Sirianni are terrific as their characters play off of Fiore's goofy, self-absorbed importance. Sirianni adds the right touch of toughness and assuredness in the midst of this group of harebrained individuals. Red Peters shows what it's really like to be a stand up comic! Santorelli is hysterical...(you just gotta see to see what I mean!) Blaire is sultry and seductive. VERY CLEVER AND CONVINCING CONCEPT...we are talking FUN! - enjoyable - good time to be had.....this is a classic!
My new favorite mob movie
I seem among commenters to be alone as someone who came into this movie
not as a Sopranos fan, but as a Larry Blamire fanI've only seen The
Sopranos once. It was good, but not enough for me to get cable hooked
up again.
So no, I come in as a rabid Skeleteer, a fan of "The Lost Skeleton of
Cadavra". And I was *going* to quote my IMDb review of Lost Skeleton,
wondering what Blamire's directing style was like when he was shooting
for himself and not emulating a style or genre, but looking at it, I
see I never actually made that query in that review, so apparently I'm
going to have to quote a hallucination.
It is *definitely* a question I had in mind after one of my (large but
still finite number)th viewing of Lost Skeleton: if he's shooting a
movie for its own sake, how would he do it? The answer is: extremely
well. When you take the camera off lockdown, he moves it sensibly, a
welcome relief from the vertigo-inducing roller-coaster Peter Jackson
used on 'King Kong' or the attention-deficit jump-cuttery of Michael
(spitspit) Bay. Personally, I found his technique reminiscent of
Altman: the camera moves with purpose, not just because it can. The
violence is handled with care: real enough to underscore the plot, not
so real as to derail the comedy.
I'm looking forward to further non-genre projects in addition to The
Lost Skeleton Returns Again, Dark and Stormy Night, and whatever else
he may have in mind.
The writingheck, I'm still giggling over "Some of the biggest
comedians in the world have done comedy!" It's perfect. Some of the
well, it's too twisted to be a simple 'turn of a phrase'. Some of the
phrasing is very reminiscent of Lost Skeleton. Like the directing,
however, when freed from the restrictions of the genre, we see whole
new dimensions to Blamire's work.
John Fiore dove in all the way to the character of Johnny Slade. I
can't even begin to think of how many takes it required in studio to
get a clean take on those lyrics. He's completely committed to the
character, and so is Vincent Curatola as the mysterious and weirdly
creative Mr. Samantha, and watching their interactions as their
relationship evolves over the course of the movie is terrific.
Highly recommended, whatever the title (it'll always be "Johnny Slade's
Greatest Hits" to me"Meet the Mobsters" just doesn't swing). It's
funny all the way throughI had several 'pause for an extended
gigglefit' moments.
8/10