This is something of a good-natured romp that plays on inverted expectations when naive American housewife Kristin – played by Toni Collette – inherits the leadership of Italian mafia gang, the Balbanos.
The film’s comic violence is not entirely benign. When Kristin, frantically and inexpertly, foils an attack from a member of the rival Romano gang, she stabs him with her stiletto so viciously they discover scrotal tissue embedded in his eye. Kudos, Kristin, at least in these circles.
