There were things I didn't like about it, but Gena Rowlands was quite convincing as a gun moll with the mob after her and a child she's stuck taking care of.
In one scene she confronts a group of mafiosi and she keeps referring to one as "the sissy". They all know who she means somehow and the childishness of the insult makes it even more insulting.
Buck Henry appears briefly at the beginning as a mob accountant. He seems like a normal family man in over his head, but then he makes it clear he has the same mentality they do.
I still say kill the mafia. We know who they are. Guantanamo is sitting right there. Declare them enemy combatants and get rid of them. Mussolini crushed them in Italy. What's the point of living in an increasingly fascist state if they won't even do that?
Available on the Criterion Channel.
Just watched this one last night. Not what I was expecting from Cassavetes, but Rowlands was excellent. Loved that opening title sequence of New York at night.
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