Prizzi's Honor

Prizzi's Honor
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Directed by	John Huston
Produced by	John Foreman
Written by	Richard Condon Janet Roach
Starring	Jack Nicholson Kathleen Turner Robert Loggia Anjelica Huston William Hickey Lawrence Tierney CCH Pounder
Music by	Giacomo Puccini Alex North
Cinematography	Andrzej Bartkowiak
Editing by	Kaja Fehr Rudi Fehr
Distributed by	20th Century Fox (USA) Producers Sales Organization (non-USA)
Release date(s)	June 13, 1985 (U.S. release)
Running time	130 min
Country	United States
Language	English
Gross revenue	$26,700,000

Prizzi's Honor is a 1985 black comedy film that tells the story of a mob hit man and hit woman who fall in love, even though they have been hired to kill each other. It stars Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, Robert Loggia and Anjelica Huston.

The movie was adapted by Richard Condon and Janet Roach from Condon's novel. It was directed by John Huston. Its score, composed by Alex North, adapts the music of Giacomo Puccini and Gioachino Rossini .

Pauline Kael wrote of it: "This John Huston picture has a ripe and daring comic tone. It revels voluptuously in the murderous finagling of the members of a Brooklyn Mafia family, and rejoices in their scams. It's like The Godfather acted out by The Munsters. Jack Nicholson's average-guyness as Charley, the clan's enforcer, is the film's touchstone: this is a baroque comedy about people who behave in ordinary ways in grotesque circumstances, and it has the juice of everyday family craziness in it."^[1]

1 Awards
2 Cast
3 References
4 External links

Awards

It won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (Anjelica Huston), and was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Nicholson), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (William Hickey), Best Costume Design, Best Director, Best Film Editing (Kaja Fehr and Rudi Fehr), Best Picture and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.

Cast

Jack Nicholson as Charley Partanna
Kathleen Turner as Irene Walker
Robert Loggia as Eduardo Prizzi
Anjelica Huston as Maerose Prizzi
William Hickey as Don Corrado Prizzi
C. C. H. Pounder as Peaches Altamot
John Randolph as Angelo "Pop" Partanna
Lee Richardson as Dominic Prizzi
Michael Lombard as Rosario Filangi "Finlay"
George Santopietro as Plumber
Ann Selepegno as Amalia Prizzi
Lawrence Tierney as Lt. Hanley
Vic Polizos as Phil Vittimizzare
Dick O´Neil as Bluestone
Sally Boyar as Casco Vasorne

References

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External links

Prizzi's Honor at the Internet Movie Database
Prizzi's Honor at Allmovie
Prizzi's Honor at the TCM Movie Database

v • d • e Films directed by John Huston

1940s	The Maltese Falcon • In This Our Life • Across the Pacific • Report from the Aleutians • The Battle of San Pietro • Let There Be Light • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre • Key Largo • We Were Strangers

1950s	The Asphalt Jungle • The Red Badge of Courage • The African Queen • Moulin Rouge • Beat the Devil • Moby Dick • Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison • The Barbarian and the Geisha • The Roots of Heaven

1960s	The Unforgiven • The Misfits • Freud the Secret Passion • The List of Adrian Messenger • The Night of the Iguana • The Bible: In the Beginning • Reflections in a Golden Eye • Casino Royale • Sinful Davey • A Walk with Love and Death

1970s	The Kremlin Letter • Fat City • The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean • The Mackintosh Man • The Man Who Would Be King • Wise Blood

1980s	Phobia • Victory • Annie • Under the Volcano • Prizzi's Honor • The Dead