Playing the role of the mobster's wife or girlfriend can be pretty thankless. Many of the stories told in gangster movies take place in a male-centric world and the women, no matter how well written or well acted, tend to get left on the outside; perhaps nothing sums it up better than the final scene in "The Godfather" when the door is closed on Michael Corleone's wife. "The Sopranos" to fully fleshed out the female leads and made their characters as compelling as the guys, but one of the most memorable film performances in such a role came from Michelle Pfeiffer in "Scarface." And she only secured the part by making Al Pacino bleed.

Pfeiffer plays Elvira, the discontented girlfriend of Miami crime lord Frank Lopez (Robert Loggia). Despite the fact she's dating his current boss, feroci

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