strange but acceptable mob comedy that have an undercover fbi agent ( matthew modine ) flirt with a mobster concern widow ( michelle pfeffier ) to tie two murder on a elusive mob bos ( dean stockwell ) . the movie show that it doesn not have to go over the top just to be funny and director jonathan demme ( the silence of the lamb and philadelphia ) keep the movie from look like it be be restrain . that good and it avoid be predictiable and too .