![]() She lounges around in her posh but not extravagant house, dreaming of having a baby because, as a wife in the early '70s, that's what she expected from life. Jean isn't totally innocent, but she starts as a bit of a ninny. Gunfire isn't just felt emotionally felt: Hart delivers a visceral experience so that viewers can almost feel how heavy the gun is in Jean's hand or pocket, establishing an uncomfortable feeling of lurking danger. ![]() There's no implication that power obtained through guns and violence is cool or that money acquired in such a way creates a better life. There's no celebration of organized crime here. And in revealing how that family's lives are up-ended in the wake of one person's crime and violence, director Hart delivers the opposite of The Godfather, Scarface, or Goodfellas in every way. I'm Your Woman focuses on a mafia member's actual family. Usually, when movies are made about a mob "family," the term refers to the network of those working under one mob boss. Husband-and-wife filmmaking team Julia Hart and Jordan Horowitz turn the gritty mafia movie upside down with this completely enthralling drama. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Language includes a few uses of "f-k," and there's occasional drinking and kissing. While smoking is prevalent - as it truly was in the '70s - it's presented under the context that it's unhealthy. While guns are used to kill and gunfire erupts at a nightclub (shown from the point of view of someone caught in the middle of the chaos), it's less than the norm and is given real impact - viewers feel the horror every time a gun goes off. ![]() Compared to other mob dramas, this one is notably restrained. At one point, Jean's husband gives her a baby, and it's unclear how he obtained the infant (the info viewers get is unreliable). ![]() Women are continually shown as supportive to one another, including in circumstances where it might be unexpected. Part of that is an awareness of her White privilege, which comes authentically from her finding protection with a Black family. While this concept has previously been explored in Widows and The Kitchen, this film is a coming-of-age story of sorts about a sheltered young woman coming into her own power. Parents need to know that I'm Your Woman is a 1970s-set crime syndicate drama told from the point of view of a woman named Jean ( Rachel Brosnahan) who didn't fully understand that she was married to the mob. ![]()
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