My Blue Heaven

Title of an older comedy starring Steve Martin is the above. If you want to laugh - WATCH IT!

Steve does a great job portraying a low-level Sicilian mobster transplanted to Obscuresville, California under the government's witness protection plan, in return for his testimony against the high level mafioso he worked for.

With a sticking up, crazy hairdo and his usual jerky motions, he puts on a convincing Italian accent to bring lots of hilarious situations to the screen. He goes through two wives, or rather they go through him, before ending up with the "love of his life", a policewoman working in the Podunk town he's transferred to. For her, it was love at first sight.

His questionable morals, actions and motivations land him constantly in the local D.A.'s office where the D.A. is a recently divorced, good-looking woman attorney. HOWEVER, it's not Martin she's attracted to, but rather the short, near-sighted FBI agent who's assigned to watch over him.

The agent is played by the guy who played the Dad in "Honey, We Shrunk the Kids" movie - I can't remember his name. Although the agent is a pretty nerdy fellow, Martin, with his "wild and crazy" lifestyle gets the guy to loosen up and dance the marimba... eventually with the D.A., who's just as nerdy only prettier.

Well, it all ends up just fine. Martin testifies back in New York against his old mobster boss, the FBI agent gets the D.A. girl, and Martin builds a little league stadium with the nickels and dimes he's collected in huge, empty water bottles placed in strategic places - even though he originally intended to use the money to finance his new crime operation in California!

So, everybody wins. I recommend it for some good laughter. Remember, that's what Norman Cousins did to cure himself of his autoimmune disease as recorded in his book "Anatomy of an Illness". He laughed his way out of it...