My Blue Heaven My Blue Heaven

The stars of Parenthood in comedy about an urban hood finding suburbanhood.

FBI agent Barney Coopersmith is assigned to protect former Mafia figure turned informant Vincent Antonelli. In the witness protection program one is supposed to keep a low profile, but that is something that Antonelli has trouble doing. Coopersmith certainly has his hands full keeping Antonelli away from the Mafia hitmen who want to stop him testifying, not to mention the nightclubs...

Steve Martin Rick Moranis Joan Cusack Melanie Mayron Bill Irwin Carol Kane

action comedy

97 mins   More details at IMDb / TMDb

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  • COLPARKER

    Review by COLPARKER ★★½

    This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  • Bill Chambers

    Review by Bill Chambers ★★★

    Warner Bros. blew it by releasing this joke sequel to Goodfellas, written by Nora "Mrs. Nicholas Pileggi" Ephron, a month BEFORE Goodfellas came out. I'm not sure the movie would've flopped any less hard had they held it back, but at least audiences would've had a chance to be in on the joke. Steve Martin's goombah caricature is too silly to be offensive (coulda been a lot worse: Martin replaced Arnold Schwarzenegger!), and it's probably his last quotable role. "Dis is not the old me, dis is the new me" still rears its head at family gatherings, though I'm newly fond of a line I'd forgot: "I'm the worst-case scenario of Thomas Jefferson's dreams!" Choreographer-turned-director Herb Ross previously made Pennies…

  • Arnold Furious

    Review by Arnold Furious ★★★½ 1

    #16 of the December Project.

    I saw this back in the early 90s and found it to be amusing. Steve Martin doesn't play his usual character so its fun to watch. However I then read Gangsters and Goodfellas, the second book co-authored by Henry Hill (played by Ray Liotta in Goodfellas). In it Hill mentions My Blue Heaven and points out that it was based on his life in Witness Protection. The link being writer Nora Ephron who was married to Hill's friend and co-author on Wiseguy Nic Pileggi. She took Hill's eccentricities and added more comedy around them. Seeing My Blue Heaven as a light-hearted sequel to Goodfellas puts a different spin on it. I liked it a lot more on this re-watch.

  • JuanCostrada

    Review by JuanCostrada ★★

    Martin and Moranis star in a comedy that lacks laughs, and even a sense of cleverness in its setup.

    Moranis is protecting Martin in witness protection as he is due to testify against the mafia. This plot thread remains relatively untouched as no antagonist is revealed. The high point is finding out over snitches living a life in exile but that thread leads nowhere. It essentially morphs into a relatively light rom-com with even lighter results.

    There are also title cards and two elongated dance sequences. And a guy who dances funny, which isn’t funny.

    The Reverence: A turtle down the drain.

  • Sasha James

    Review by Sasha James ★★½

    I'm not entirely sure about the title cards.

  • fengypants

    Review by fengypants ★★★½

    I was going to joke that this is the sequel to Goodfellas, but reality — and Nora Ephron — beat me to it.

    Wikipedia:

    [My Blue Heaven] has been noted for its relationship to the movie Goodfellas, which was released one month after this film. Both movies are based upon the life of Henry Hill, although the character is renamed to “Vincent ‘Vinnie’ Antonelli” in My Blue Heaven.

    While Goodfellas was based upon the book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi, the screenplay for My Blue Heaven was written by Pileggi's wife, Nora Ephron, and much of the research for both works was done in the same sessions with Hill.

    Oh, the second half of the movie is cheesy, but I never…

  • Jye Briscoe

    Review by Jye Briscoe ★★

    I really didn't know what to expect from this pretty unheard of comedy. Well, in short, it featured Steve Martin doing a bad Italian accent with a terrible haircut and Rick Moranis not fitting the role as an FBI agent.

    I didn't really enjoy this at all. I found Steve Martins character quite annoying the whole way through. Even the powerhouse actor that is Rick Moranis couldn't save this one.