Prizzi's Honor

Prizzi's Honor - a Romantic Crime Comedy

Starring: Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, Robert Loggia

Prizzi's Honor is a 1985 American 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."

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

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