Love between equals is a gangland rarity. Tony Soprano, Michael Corleone and Henry Hill never sought partners, but instead women whose curiosity they could buy off with diamonds, furs and a McMansion.
That makes Tommy Uva (Michael Pitt) a different kind of goon.
Like the Mafiosi he grew up around, he could use a few years on a psychiatrist’s couch to get over his daddy issues. But Tommy’s life doesn’t revolve around his father, but rather his girlfriend Rosie (Nina Arianda), and their brief, dizzying, deeply stupid crime spree.
“Rob the Mob” is director Raymond De Felitta‘s love letter to Thomas and Rose Marie Uva, a real-life couple from Queens who inadvertently helped send nearly two dozen gangsters to prison in the early 90s.