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Prizzi's Honor (1985)

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Richard Condon's delicious black comedy was lovingly translated to the screen by legendary director John Huston in one of his last movies. The Prizzis are a powerful family of mobsters, as devoted to their code of honor as they are to bending laws and breaking skulls. Charley Partanna (Jack Nicholson), a Prizzi hit man, is not quite so honorable, at least where affairs of the heart are concerned. While attending a mob wedding, he throws over his longtime sweetheart Maerose Prizzi (Anjelica

R, 2 hr. 10 min.

Drama, Romance, Comedy

Directed By: John Huston

In Theaters: Jun 13, 1985 Wide

On DVD: Mar 13, 2001

Fox

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Cast

Jack Nicholson
Charley Partanna
Kathleen Turner
Irene Walker
Anjelica Huston
Maerose Prizzi
William Hickey
Don Corrado Prizzi
Robert Loggia
Eduardo Prizzi
John Randolph
Angelo "Pop" Partanna
Lee Richardson
Dominic Prizzi
Michael Lombard
Filargi "Finlay"
Lawrence Tierney
Lieutenant Hanley
Joseph Ruskin
Marxie Heller
Ann Selepegno
Amalia Prizzi
Erasmus C. Alfano
Cigar Smoker
Seth Allen
Gomsky
Tomasino Baratta
Opera Singer
Dominic Barto
Presto Ciglione
Sully Boyar
Casco Vascone
Scott Campbell
Groom at Mexican Chapel
Henry Fehren
Bishop
Michael Fischetti
Kiely
Ray Iannicelli
Photographer
Debra Kelly
Bride at Mexican Chapel
Dick O'Neill
Bluestone
Vic Polizos
Phil Vittimizzare
CCH Pounder
Peaches Altamont
Beth Raines
Airport Clerk
George Santopietro
Plumber
Ray Serra
Bocca
Tom Signorelli
Photographer
Stanley Tucci
Soldier
Antonia Vasquez
Theresa Prizzi
Luis Accinelli
Man at Mexican Wedding
Jonathan L. Arland
Man at Mexican Wedding
Bill Brecht
Cigar Smoker
John Calvani
Don's Bodyguard
Kenneth Cervi
Bodyguard
Enzo Citarelli
Priest
John Codiglia
Policeman
Peter D'Arcy
Cigar Smoker
Danielle Frederick
Woman at Mexican Weddin...
Alexandra Ivanoff
Soprano in Church
Joe Kopmar
Cigar Smoker
Thomas Lomonaco
Cigar Smoker
Skip O'Brien
Bartender
Michael Sabin
Charley at 17
Themi Sapountzakis
Policeman
Teddi Siddall
Beulah
Murray Staff
Gallagher
Theodore Theoharous
Priest
Michael Tuck
Anchorman Fred
Marlene Williams
Mrs. Calhane
Ruben Gonzalez
Man at Mexican Wedding

Critic Reviews for Prizzi's Honor

All Critics (33) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (31) | Rotten (4) | DVD (16)

John Huston's Prizzi's Honor packs love, sex, and murder -- and dark comedy -- into a labyrinthine tale.

February 5, 2008 Full Review Source: Variety

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Variety Staff

Variety

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As usual, Turner works hard and manages to lend some conviction to a shoddily written part, but she can't connect with Nicholson, whose obscure hamminess leaves him isolated on some other planet.

February 5, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader

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Dave Kehr

Chicago Reader

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This is the most bizarre comedy in many a month, a movie so dark, so cynical and so funny that perhaps only Jack Nicholson and Kathleen Turner could have kept straight faces during the love scenes.

October 23, 2004 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Top Critic

Almost every possible mob film has been made, but this one still feels inventive and engaging.

August 15, 2011 Full Review Source: Oscar Guy

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Wesley Lovell

Oscar Guy

John Huston's dark, cynical comedy about the Mafia, one of his last pictures, suffers from the lack of chemistry between Jack Nicholson and Kathleen Turner, but Anjelica Huston is excellent in a well-deserving Oscar-winning turn.

August 16, 2008 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com Source: EmanuelLevy.Com

A blackly comic and insidiously sly love story in the unforgiving underworld of mob families and freelance criminals...

July 20, 2008 Full Review Source: Seanax.com

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Sean Axmaker

Seanax.com

Huston steers clear of slapstick clich� and keeps the comedy coming, right to its violently funny ending.

February 5, 2008 Full Review Source: Film4

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Film4

Widely considered a black comedy classic, Prizzi's Honor is dated today and, tragically, finally revealed as a middling work that wanders aimlessly and ends abruptly.

July 25, 2006 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com

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Christopher Null

Filmcritic.com

A very stylish walk with love and death.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out

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Time Out

Yes, it went a little too long, felt a little forced at times, began with one of the most unnecessary lengthy wedding scenes of all-time and ended on a note that simply didn't satisfy, but overall, I enjoyed it and would recommend it.

February 5, 2005 Full Review Source: JoBlo's Movie Emporium

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JoBlo

JoBlo's Movie Emporium

A black comedy about an ill-fated love affair and the nasty politics of a criminal clan.

August 22, 2004 Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice

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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

Spirituality and Practice

As divertidas (e exageradas) performances de Nicholson e Hickey s�o o ponto alto deste filme apenas regular.

April 12, 2004 Comment

Pablo Villaca

Cinema em Cena

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John Huston has a little fun with the by now typical New York family crime tale when one of their main killers spots a beautiful blonde at a Mob wedding and is instantly smitten. There's a catch though ... she's a contract killer too. Nicholson and Turner are good enough for charm and Huston's daughter gets to shine

March 24, 2012

moon rivers

Super Reviewer

For as much as I remember Prizzi's Honor getting talked up when I was a kid, as an adult I've got to ask what the hell the big goddamn deal was about. The story sets up an interesting premise but takes some major lapses in logic (even if the only mafia movie you've ever seen is The Godfather) and ties things up W A Y

November 23, 2006

Michael Gildea

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