10 Movies That Used Great Songs To Trick You Into Watching Them

6. My Blue Heaven

The Nineties dawned with Steve Martin beginning to flex his comic muscles in directions away from the madcap flailing cinemagoers had come to associate with him. Disappointments like Leap Of Faith, A Simple Twist Of Fate and Mixed Nuts were way over the horizon when he took on the role as a mobster under Witness Protection in My Blue Heaven. Using the same inspiration as Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas - that of true life transgressor Henry Hill - it concerned the clash of personalities between Martin's garrulous gangster and Rick Moranis's strait-laced law enforcer. Sadly for both actors audiences decided Robert De Niro and company were a lot funnier. What significance the title track of My Blue Heaven, performed by Fats Domino? Hard to say, yet Warner Bros saw the jaunty 1920s belter as the perfect accompaniment to this misfiring release. Scorsese used enough nostalgic music to sink Tony Soprano's fishing boat and director Herbert Ross followed suit, cramming in everything from New York, New York to Surfin' USA!