7 There are too many movies glorifying "the mob" and its glamour and excitement, but the twists in this one are hard to resist. Andy Garcia plays a former mob insider trying to go straight in a videotaping business meant to record the last thoughts and unfulfilled dreams of the dying, especially AIDS patients. He is given an opportunity to pay off an overdue debt by scaring off the man who has married the mob boss's son's former girlfriend, the only woman who ever gave the dullard son a second thought. The boss is played by Christopher Walken as a paraplegic wounded in a shootout, whose only working parts are his head and mouth.

Garcia puts together a bunch of ne'erdowell former gumbas to help him, with Treat Williams and Christopher Lloyd among them, both in roles you've never seen them in before. Williams is a battle-scarred paranoiac who blows the whole operation and all their lives by accidentally killing not only the husband but the former girlfriend as well.

You can imagine the consequences, and probably also why the outplay of this tale might be worth seeing. There is also a tender love story here, as Garcia's character has just struck a match with the woman of his destiny. Garcia's character emerges as a man of values and substance despite his low estate in life, and this redeems yet another film play about the mob.