The gangster’s girlfriend and the loyal Black sidekick are typically the two most disposable figures in pulp fiction, yet in this movie they’re our protagonists. There’s a massive mob war raging in the city that would be the main focus of just about any other movie, but “I’m Your Woman” stays out in the sticks with the characters so often ignored in these stories. They hit the road and try to lay low for a while, but unfortunately, this is a time and place where a Black man traveling with a white woman attracts the wrong kind of attention. Luckily, he’s good with babies, because Jean sure isn’t. She’s assigned a bodyguard, an old acquaintance named Cal (Arinzé Kene) who owes Eddie a favor. Maybe they think she knows more than she does, or maybe they think they can use her and the baby to get to Eddie.
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. 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. Find out who traveled back to the 1970s to co-star with Brosnahan in I’m Your Woman and whether they are playing a friend or foe.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. Her allies and the crooks looking for her are played by multiple character actors who transform themselves for all of their roles. She also encounters the criminals who are tracking her throughout the film. Jean meets multiple people who risk their lives to keep her safe and teach her how to defend herself. She must leave her quiet life as a wife and mother behind and become a new woman who is not afraid of death. Her husband is missing and the men he conned are out for revenge, which forces Jean to go on the run to protect herself and her baby.
In the movie, Brosnahan plays a woman named Jean whose life is put at risk after her husband deceives his business partners. But her character here finds herself in a dark situation that is more treacherous than anything Midge has had to handle. So, she is more than capable of leading the crime drama I’m Your Woman set in the 1970s. Maisel, Rachel Brosnahan can clearly nail playing a distraught housewife in a period piece.