before hit international acclaim with the silence of the lamb and director jonathan demme cut his teeth make quirky comedy . this be one of them and like quite a few oscar win american comedy i could mention and it have a fine concept and be well pace and have great performance and a complicated romance . but it just simply isn not very funny . pfeiffer be mob widow who move to the city backwater after her husband ( baldwin ) be murder . the crime bos who kill him ( stockwell ) take a fancy to pfeiffer and his wife ( reuhl ) be furious and to complicate matter pfeiffer also fall for the cop who be trail her . all of this should have be a laugh a minute . pfeiffer and sport a hefty wig be excellent a the widow and a be the hyperactive ruehl and modine be good too a the nice cop . but the script be simply devoid of one liner and wit and humour or punch line of the verbal or physical kind that this kind of film demand . the result be it raise smile at best rather than guffaw . it ooze charm and but be tediously short on humour .