He’s done something really bad this time - though we’re not told exactly what - and Eddie’s panicked partners pound on the door in the middle of the night, rushing Jean and her baby to a motel with a big bag of cash. Bill Heck and Rachel Brosnahan in "I'm Your Woman." (Courtesy Wilson Webb/Amazon Studios) An early scene explaining their relationship inverts the famous final shot of “The Godfather,” so that when Eddie closes the door to do business with his buddies, we and the camera stay in the kitchen with Jean. Jean doesn’t ask many questions about what her husband does for a living, not even when he brings home a newborn baby and announces that it’s “theirs” now. Maisel”) as Jean, the pouty, none-too-bright wife of Bill Heck’s movie-star handsome gangster, Eddie.
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The movie stars Rachel Brosnahan (of Amazon’s “The Marvelous Mrs. It’s a 1970s crime picture told from the POV of the gun moll, a character continually cast to the side and kept in the dark. “ I’m Your Woman,” a thoughtful, if not entirely successful, new thriller from director Julia Hart, flips this formula in a provocative way. They’ve served their story purpose and must be dismissed so that the action can begin in earnest. We almost never hear another word about these women. A lot of times they’re stashed in a safe house run by some friendly cronies we’ve met earlier in the film, or the hero will tell his girlfriend to go stay at her sister’s, typically giving a big speech about how he can’t let her be a part of what’s about to happen next. If you watch enough crime pictures you’re familiar with the obligatory scene roughly three-quarters into the movie when the women are sent away.