Synopsis
The true-life story of a crazy-in-love Queens couple who robbed a series of mafia social clubs and got away with it… for a while… until they stumble upon a score bigger than they ever planned and become targets of both the mob and the FBI.
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Cast
- Michael PittTommy Uva
- Nina AriandaRosie
- Andy GarcíaBig Al
- Ray RomanoJerry Cardozo
- Griffin DunneDave Lovell
- Michael RispoliSal
- Yul VazquezVinny Gorgeous
- Frank WhaleyAgent Frank Hurd
- Samira WileyAgent Annie Bell
- Brian TarantinaRonnie
Recommendations
- 80
The Hollywood Reporter
Featuring generous doses of raucous humor as well as a haunting atmosphere of dread as Tommy and Rosie’s exploits prove increasingly dangerous, Rob the Mob is a true-crime tale that boasts an uncommon emotional resonance. - 75
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Pitt and Arianda utterly inhabit these dolts and their delusional dreams. They’re careless and clumsy, never thinking things through, never seriously considering the inevitable consequences of what happens when you poke the bull. - 75
New York Post
Rob the Mob, which is more fun and more tightly constructed than “American Hustle,’’ romanticizes the clueless couple, whom the columnist dubs “Bonnie and Clyde,” and moves their inevitable Christmas Eve date with fate from Ozone Park to a far more attractive location. - 70
Variety
Unexpectedly but effectively cast in a role that plays to his sullen strengths, Pitt has a palpable, playful rapport with Arianda, a Tony-winning Broadway ingenue whose warm, expressive features and tinderbox comic timing recalls the young Marisa Tomei. - 67
The A.V. Club
The scowling Pitt proves no match for the Tony-winning Arianda, whose brassy, thick-accented positivity could probably cut down the gangsters as mercilessly as any gun. While the pair is robbing the mob, she’s stealing the movie. - 60
Time Out
Early on, the film bristles with endorphins and oddness. - 60
New York Daily News
The movie winds up being a real standup flick, if you know what I mean. - 50
Slant Magazine
For the most part, it's a gas, but the light touch Raymond De Felitta gives the material is at once its saving grace and its tremendous limiter.
