Fresh
John Huston's Prizzi's Honor packs love, sex, and murder -- and dark comedy -- into a labyrinthine tale.
Variety Staff, Variety
Prizzi's Honor
Hired killers by day. Devoted lovers by night. Until they found out their next assignment was each other.
1985 · 2h 4m · R
Comedy, Crime, Romance
Directed by
John Huston
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Prizzi's Honor
Overview
Charley Partanna is a hitman who works for the Prizzis, one of the richest crime families in the US. When he sees Irene Walker, it's love at first sight. But he soon finds that she, too, is a killer for hire. Charley can overlook his suspicions, but he can't turn off his heart. And the couple must remember that even if they love each other, the Prizzis love only money.
Director and cast
- John Huston Director
- Jack Nicholson as Charley Partanna
- Kathleen Turner as Irene Walker
- Robert Loggia as Eduardo Prizzi
- John Randolph as Angelo 'Pop' Partanna
- William Hickey as Don Corrado Prizzi
- Lee Richardson as Dominic Prizzi
- Michael Lombard as Rosario Filargi " Finlay "
- Anjelica Huston as Maerose Prizzi
- Lawrence Tierney as Lt. Hanley
- CCH Pounder as Peaches Altamont
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
85%
Tomatometer
Rotten
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.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
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.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
A very stylish walk with love and death.
Time Out
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