Mafia Mamma

Mafia Mamma is a 2023 American action comedy film directed by Catherine Hardwicke, from a screenplay by Michael J. Feldman and Debbie Jhoon, and based on an original story by Amanda Sthers. It stars Toni Collette as an American woman who travels to Italy following the death of her grandfather, whom she discovers was a mafia Don. Monica Bellucci and Sophia Nomvete also star. Pre-production began in 2021 with filming in Rome in May 2022. The film was released theatrically in the United States on April 14, 2023, by Bleecker Street, and grossed $7 million worldwide. Plot Kristen, a writer and sales expert for a cosmetics company, is in the throes of a midlife crisis: her only son has just left for college, she catches her husband having sex with a younger woman in the basement of their home, and her bosses at the company treat her with contempt. She receives a call from a lawyer named Bianca in Calabria, learning that her only living relative, her grandfather, has died and that she must attend his funeral and be present at the reading of his will. Jenny, Kristen's friend, convinces her that attending the funeral will give her a chance to start over. Upon landing in Calabria, Kristen runs into a local, Lorenzo, and his aunt Esmeralda. Kristen is attracted to Lorenzo and gives him her number before being picked up by Bianca's associates, Dante and Aldo. The funeral proceeds smoothly until armed men stage an ambush, and the coffin is destroyed by bullets. Aldo and Dante, following Bianca's instructions, get Kristen to safety.