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Prizzi's Honor is a 1985 American black comedy crime film directed by John Huston, starring Jack Nicholson and Kathleen Turner as two highly skilled mob assassins who, after falling in love, are hired to kill each other.
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The story is by Richard Condon, a novelist who delights in devious plot construction, and here he takes two absolutes - romantic love and the Prizzi's honor - and arranges a collision between them. Because all of the motivations are so direct and logical, the movie is able to make the most shocking decisions seem inevitable.
In New York, the hit-man Charley Partanna is like a son for his godfather Don Corrado Prizzi, who is a powerful mobster. In a wedding of a member of their family, Charley meets Irene Walker and he falls in love with her.
Jun 14, 1985 · Prizzi's Honor: Directed by John Huston. With Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, Robert Loggia, John Randolph. Two professional assassins fall in love.
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- Comedy, Crime, Drama
- John Huston
- 1985-06-14
Partanna is respected for ruthlessly carrying out murder contracts, but his wise-talking Brooklyn existence is turned on its head when he falls for a beautiful hit woman (Kathleen Turner) from...
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- John Huston
- R
- Jack Nicholson
Synopsis. A hit-man for a close-knit Mafia family falls in love with his female counterpart, but when she makes a serious blunder against the family, he's faced with the toughest choice of all.
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.
