New Delhi, July 17 (IANS) The anticipated Hollywood thriller, "The Kitchen", starring Melissa McCarthy and Tiffany Haddish, will release in India on August 23.

Set in the 1970s, the crime drama follows three New York-based housewives who become Irish mobsters after their husbands are arrested by the FBI.

McCarthy, Haddish and Elisabeth Moss will be seen as the protagonists, while Domhnall Gleeson, Bill Camp, Margo Martindale, Common, Brian d'Arcy James and James Badge Dale also feature in the cast.

Written and directed by Andrea Berloff, the Warner Bros. Pictures production is based on the DC/Vertigo comic book series by Ollie Masters and Ming Doyle.

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