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Click image The film “The Wannabe” is "centered around the 1992 John Gotti trial in New York City" but has more to do with the short-lived lukewarm HBO series Boardwalk Empire than any mob boss. The producers don't seem to realize they are remaking a film released only last year called Rob the Mob . Or they found out too late so they added a "twist" to even further distance their cinematic effort from the true account of the married couple who robbed mob social clubs for a few months in the early 1990s. Ultimately the two were brutally murdered in broad daylight by Mafia shooters.

The film The Wannabe, which is available now on Amazon Prime, has a very specific setting: the 1992 John Gotti trial in New York City. Still, despite this leverage of the Gotti name, The Wannabe is much more reminiscent of the former HBO series Boardwalk Empire . Click image Did the filmmakers really not realize they were essentially remaking a film released only last year called Rob the Mob ? We strongly suspect that they found this out too late so they added a "twist" to try to distance the film from the previous year's cinematic account of a married couple who robbed Mafia social clubs for a few months in the early 1990s. Ultimately the two were brutally murdered in broad daylight. "The Wannabe" drew so much of its talent from Boardwalk Empire, it's distracting. (The villainous Gyp Rosetti was our favorite Boardwalk character) Martin Scorsese's name is attached to The Wannabe, but as a producer, which doesn't neces...

Rob the Mob , directed by Oscar-nominee Raymond de Felitta (City Island, Bronx Cheers) and starring Michael Pitt, Nina Arianda, Andy Garcia and Ray Romano, opens in cinemas next month. The film purports to tell the true-life story of Thomas and Rose Marie Uva , a married couple who made the foolhardy, fatal decision to make quick cash by robbing Mafia social clubs in Little Italy, Queens and Brooklyn, a crime spree that ran from the summer of 1992 to near the end of that year, specifically on Christmas Eve 1992, when the two were killed. Thomas and Rose Marie Uva; the press dubbed the married couple as "Bonnie and Clyde." In nearly every robbery, 21-year-old getaway driver Rose Marie waited in the car while Tommy, hefting an Uzi, would simply walk into the clubs, the doors of which were open.

Reviews are starting to pop up all over the Internet regarding " Rob the Mob ," a film about the Uvas, a married couple who made the foolhardy, fatal decision to make quick cash by robbing Mafia social clubs in Little Italy, Queens and Brooklyn. Their crime spree ran from the summer of 1992 to the day of Christmas Eve 1992, when the two were killed. Shot in the head, each, by the Mafia.