Prime Video Movie of the Day: Mafia Mamma is the best bad movie because it's actually great

Mafia mom was in great danger of not working. Its story is borderline nonsense, its acting is as grounded as the International Space Station, and its tone veers from rollicking farce to alarming violence to surprisingly erotically charged. And in the end that's all it is Why it works so well. This Prime Video comedy knows exactly what it's doing, and it's throwing a big party in Italy with hilarious jokes that everyone is invited to – but only if you promise not to take it seriously.

Toni Collette plays Kristin, a classic, repressed movie wife who returns from a job where her contributions are ignored to find her husband cheating on her, all just as her son leaves home. Luckily her Italian grandfather died and she has to go to Italy to sort out the estate and this estate turns out to be a real mob family.