Old Blue Eyes here isn't the Chairman of the Board. This time it's Hugh Grant playing Mickey Blue Eyes, a debonair Englishman (aren't they all?), who falls head over heels for the wrong girl.
Mickey runs an upscale auction house in New York City, and is blissfully in love with his girlfriend of three months, Gina, played by Jeanne Tripplehorn.
But trouble arises when he finally works up his courage and proposes to Gina, and she turns him down flat. She says she does love him, but she can't marry him. No reason given.
So Mickey pursues Gina to her father Frank's restaurant in Little Italy where he meets her family. Frank, James Caan, welcomes his potential son-in-law with open arms and Mickey is delighted. At first, that is. He soon begins to realize that welcome to the family really means welcome to "The Family." No wonder Gina didn't want him involved.
In order to win his lovely Gina's hand, Mickey becomes involved in a mission to thwart The Mob, but, as luck would have it, he soon becomes an inadvertent accessory to murder, on top of which he finds himself masquerading in certain circles as Kansas City wiseguy Mickey Blue Eyes.
The movie is produced by Grant's girlfriend, Elizabeth Hurley. Hurley and Grant went over the script, which originally had Mickey as an uptight American and changed him to the charming Englishman, certainly more Grant.
The movie is rated PG-13 for brief strong language, some violence and sensuality.
It starts Thursday at Market Square East.
