mafia mamma

Mafia Mamma is an action/comedy based on an original story written by a woman, directed be a woman, starring a woman and meant to empower women, but for all the wrong reasons. The always wonderful and insightful Toni Collette is Kristin, a people pleasing suburban helicopter mom who puts everyone else first, so when she unexpectedly inherits her estranged grandfather’s mafia empire in Italy, it’s her chance to do something for herself.

The game-for-anything Toni Collette inherits a mafia clan in Mafia Mamma, an uneven comedy where the jokes and the tone are as scattershot as some characters’ aim. Collette plays Kristin, a suburban mom and pitchwoman for pharmaceutical products whose sexist boss prefers marketing erectile dysfunction products than hair treatments for cancer patients. She’s dealing with troubles at home, including a cheating husband, when she’s summoned to Italy to settle the affairs of her grandfather.