Mickey Blue Eyes

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Mickey Blue Eyes

Mickey Blue Eyes film poster
Directed by Kelly Makin
Produced by Elizabeth Hurley
Charles Mulvehill
Written by Adam Scheinman
Robert Kuhn
Starring Hugh Grant
James Caan
Jeanne Tripplehorn
Distributed by Warner Bros.
Release date(s) August 17, 1999
Running time 102 minutes
Language English
IMDb profile

Mickey Blue Eyes is a 1999 film directed by Kelly Makin. Hugh Grant stars as Michael Felgate, an Englishman living in New York, who works as an auctioneer and manager of an art gallery.

This movie was a box office bomb, costing $75 million to make and earning only over $54 million worldwide.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

When he proposes marriage to his girlfriend Gina Vitale, he is shocked to be turned down. Gina later tearfully explains that her father and most of her cousins and uncles are gangsters deeply involved in a Mafia crime family, and she's worried that Michael may be sucked into their world. Michael retorts that he won't let this happen, but barely is the engagement party over before he is unwittingly involved in a money laundering scam, and soon the FBI is sniffing at his heels.

When a deal goes bad, Gina accidentally shoots dead her gangster cousin. Michael takes the blame, but then finds that Gina's father Franco has been chosen to kill Michael in revenge. Unable to carry out the deed, Franco confesses all to the FBI in return for protection. The FBI set up an elaborate operation in which Michael will be "shot" at the wedding reception and several of the gang implicated.

The operation nearly goes wrong and both Michael and Gina are "shot", but all ends well — sort of.

At one point, Michael is forced to impersonate a gangster and is introduced as "Little Big Mickey Blue". Franco attempts unsuccessfully to teach him to speak like a gangster, using expressions like "fugedaboudit".

Spoilers end here.

As well as having a plot which would not be out of place in an episode of the HBO TV series The Sopranos, the film is notable for the number of actors who would go on to appear in the series, including:

  • Vincent Alo, a real-life gangster known as "Jimmy Blue Eyes"


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