Angelo "Snaps" Provolone (Sylvester Stallone) is giving up the gangster business to become a banker. He has a meeting scheduled for noon but everything goes awry first thing in the morning when his accountant, Little Anthony (Vincent Spano) confesses to siphoning $50,000 in order to propose to Snaps's daughter. Snaps is uncomfortable with the thought but confronts Lisa (Marisa Tomei) who would agree to anything if it meant escaping her father's household to be a modern 1930s woman. Lisa tells Snaps she's pregnant to force the marriage to go through, except then Theresa (Elizabeth Barondes) shows up and tells Snaps that she had met Anthony at a club, panicked because she wanted to look like she came from a good family, and told Anthony she was Snaps's daughter. Snaps concocts a scheme to get Anthony to give up the stolen money and marry Lisa to provide her unborn child with a father. Meanwhile, the maid (Jocelyn O'Brien) is quitting, the butler (Peter Riegert) keeps pushing to go back to crime, a dogged police officer (Kurtwood Smith) is staking out the house, and a rival gang is looking to take Snaps down. All before 10 a.m.
It is a screwball comedy with multiple bags changing hands, a stellar supporting cast, and happily ever afters all around. Unfortunately, it's only available on Hoopla - a streaming service like Kanopy you can get with a library card - even for rent. I had it on DVD ages ago and burned it to my server. If you can find it, it's worth it.
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