The Kitchen Dvd

The Kitchen is a 2019 American crime film written and directed by Andrea Berloff in her directorial debut. It is based on the DC/Vertigo Comics limited series of the same name by Ollie Masters and Ming Doyle. The film stars an ensemble cast, led by Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, and Elisabeth Moss as the wives of Irish mobsters, who take over organized crime operations in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen in the late 1970s, after the FBI arrests their husbands. The film also features Domhnall Gleeson, James Badge Dale, Brian d’Arcy James, Jeremy Bobb, Margo Martindale, Common, and Bill Camp in supporting roles.

Produced by New Line Cinema, Bron Creative, and Michael De Luca Productions, the film was theatrically released in the United States on August 9, 2019, by Warner Bros. Pictures. It received mostly negative reviews from critics, who criticized the convoluted plot, and grossed $16 million against its $38 million budget, making the film a box-office bomb.

Plot

In Hell’s Kitchen 1978, three women are married to members of the Irish mob. Kathy is married to the reluctant but kind Jimmy; Ruby is married to Kevin, the son of Helen and heir to the mob empire; Claire is married to Rob, who abuses her.

One night, the men are busted by FBI agents and sentenced to three years in prison. Little Jackie becomes head of the mob and tells the wives they’ll be taken care of, but the money isn’t enough for the women to survive. When the women discover that the local businesses paying protection fees are not happy under Little Jackie, they begin collecting protection fees and helping out the neighborhood, making a profit and becoming beloved in the community. When Jackie finds out, he goes after the women, but is killed by Gabriel O’Malley, a former Irish mob enforcer called in by Ruby. With Jackie out of the way and Gabriel as their enforcer, the women begin running the neighborhood, while Gabriel and Claire begin a relationship.

The women eventually are ordered to meet with Alfonso Coretti, the head of the Italian mafia. He suggests they make a deal and tells them he’s arranged for their husbands to be released from prison. Knowing that this will threaten the women’s power, Coretti says he’ll support them and give them more of the city to control. The women decide to take the deal. When their husbands get out of prison, Kevin thinks that he’s still in charge, Jimmy pressures Kathy for them to leave their life of crime, and Rob is furious that Claire has left him for Gabriel. When Rob tracks Claire down, she kills him. After Rob’s murder, Coretti tells the women that a contract has been placed on them by members of their own gang. Ruby offers more money for the mafia to kill Kevin and three other gangsters, but Kathy makes her drop teenager Colin from the list. The hit goes through, but Claire is killed when Colin comes back to exact revenge.

After Claire’s funeral, Kathy realizes that Ruby has been paying off one of the FBI agents. Ruby explains that she set up their husbands to be caught on the night they were originally arrested so that she could take over. Kathy later finds that Jimmy has taken her children to Coretti against her will because Jimmy was unhappy about not having a place in the business. Feeling betrayed, Kathy leaves, allowing Coretti to kill Jimmy.

Ruby asks Kathy to meet her at a vendor. When Kathy arrives, she finds that Ruby and Gabriel are planning to kill her, but Kathy has brought all of the local Irishmen as backup. Gabriel admits he only got back into the life because he loved Claire, and he leaves. Kathy tells Ruby that the only way the two of them will survive is if they work together, so the women reconcile, with plans to take on Uptown next.

Cast

Melissa McCarthy as Kathy Brennan, Jimmy’s wife, devoted mother of Peter and Jennifer. Initially reluctant to enter the criminal domain, then excels through her deft abilities.
Tiffany Haddish as Ruby O’Carroll, Kevin’s wife and an outsider in the Irish community who seeks self-sufficiency once her husband is not around to protect her.
Elisabeth Moss as Claire Walsh, Rob’s wife, an initially timid woman who falls in love with the violence of her new life. After years of abuse by Rob, she falls for the loving Gabriel.
Domhnall Gleeson as Gabriel O’Malley, an intense Vietnam veteran who worked for the neighborhood gangsters as a hitman before skipping town to avoid the police. Returns to help Claire when the wives take over.
James Badge Dale as Kevin O’Carroll, Ruby’s husband and Helen’s son.
Brian d’Arcy James as Jimmy Brennan, Kathy’s husband.
Margo Martindale as Helen O’Carroll, Kevin’s mother who runs the Irish mob behind the scenes.
Common as Gary Silvers, an FBI agent.
Bill Camp as Alfonso Coretti, boss of a Brooklyn Italian crime family.
Jeremy Bobb as Rob Walsh, Claire’s husband.
E. J. Bonilla as Gonzalo Martinez, and Gary’s FBI agent partner.
Wayne Duvall as Larry, Kathy’s father.
Annabella Sciorra as Maria Coretti, Alfonso’s wife.
Myk Watford as Little Jackie Quinn