My Blue Heaven

Director: Herbert Ross Herbert Ross

Overview

Herbert Ross directed this Nora Ephron-scripted buddy comedy starring Steve Martin, Rick Moranis, and Joan Cusack. Steve Martin plays Vinnie Antonelli, a street smart mobster who agrees to turn state's evidence and is forced to move to Fryburg, California as part of the witness relocation program. Rick Moranis plays the nebbish FBI agent Barney Coopersmith, who is assigned to help Vinnie adjust to small town life. Instead, Vinnie helps Barney come out of his shell, much to the consternation of divorced mother and relentless district attorney Hannah Stubbs (Joan Cusack).

Product Details

Release Date:	12/02/2014
UPC:	0888574099343
Original Release:	1990
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	Warner Archives
Language:	English
Time:	1:36:00
Sales rank:	27,643

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Steve Martin	Vinnie Antonelli
Rick Moranis	Barney Coopersmith
Joan Cusack	Hannah Stubbs
Melanie Mayron	Crystal
Carol Kane	Shaldeen
Bill Irwin	Kirby
William Hickey	Billy Sparrow
Deborah Rush	Linda
Daniel Stern	Will Stubbs
Julie Bovasso	Actor
Colleen Camp	Actor
Ed Lauter	Actor
Hank McCann	Actor
Robert Miranda	Actor
Randi Pareira	Actor
Jesse Bradford	Jamie
Ira Newborn	Composer

Technical Credits

Nora Ephron

Herbert Ross	Director,Producer
Nora Ephron	Executive Producer,Screenwriter,Producer
Goldie Hawn	Executive Producer,Producer
Andrew Stone	Executive Producer
Anthea Sylbert	Producer
Andrew Stone	Producer
Al Overton	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

While it wasn't exactly robbed of Best Picture, My Blue Heaven is a delightful and underrated film. The script by Nora Ephron is simple and entertaining and offers plenty of opportunities for Steve Martin to have fun with his role. It's refreshing to see Martin taking on a goofy character like mobster-with-a-heart-of-gold Vinnie Anotelli amid the countless long-suffering patriarchal roles he filled from the mid-'80s through the '90s, and he's both believable and funny in the part. Also, in perhaps the last example that he's a talented performer, Rick Moranis is a more than capable foil for the scheming and conniving Vinnie. The interaction between the two leads takes up most of the movie and it's that comedic chemistry that makes it so successful. The fact that the movie tanked at the box office could very well be the reason for Moranis' virtual disappearance from anything not about shrinking people and Martin's long string of uninteresting lead roles that followed. Either way, My Blue Heaven didn't deserve the shaft and is more than worthy of another look.