LOVE, HONOR AND OBEY
A film review by Chuck Dowling
Copyright 1996 Chuck Dowling
Love, Honor and Obey: The Last Mafia Marriage (TV-1993) ** - C:Eric Roberts, Nancy McKeon, Ben Gazarra, Alex Rocco.
The head of a 50s mafia family (Gazarra) decides that he doesn't want his organization involved with narcotics, which angers the heads of the five families. As a result, a bloody mafia war breaks out. Say, does this sound familiar? Oh yeah, it was called THE GODFATHER!!! Come on!! If you're going to blatently rip-off a mob film, try to steal from one that no one has seen! Gee whiz.
The filmmakers try to hide their stolen ideas in many ways. One way is that we're told that this was based on a true story. That may be so, but still, The Godfather did it first. Also, the main plot of the film is nothing but arguments and fights between Gazarra's son (Roberts) and his new bride (McKeon). They argue and cry and fight and make-up for the entire three hours of this TV miniseries which spans the course of several decades. They have all of the usual marital problems: not able to have children, not able to pay the bills, men with shotguns hanging out in the family room, etc. Oh, and the fact that Roberts is a mobster causes problems, but it seems to take McKeon five years to figure that part out.
Love, Honor and Obey is standard TV fare with nothing special going for it in terms of story, direction or acting. You would think that a rip off of a great movie could at least just duplicate "The Godfather" as far as interest goes, but no such luck.
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