Prizzi's Honor details
| Format: | 15 DVD |
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| Starring: | John Randolph, Kathleen Turner, William Hickey, Anjelica Huston, Robert Loggia, Jack Nicholson |
| Director: | John Huston |
| Genre: | Comedy - Drama |
| Studio: | FREMANTLE HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Name | Discs | |
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Prizzi's Honor |
15 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 2 hours 4 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 01 Jun 2009 |
| Main languages: | English |
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TOP MOVIE !!!
By a customer from GLASGOW , 31 Aug 2005[Highly rated reviewer]
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 Huston) in favor of gorgeous Irene Walker (Kathleen Turner). Supposedly a tax consultant, Irene is actually a paid killer like Charley--and this endears her to him all the more. But when it turns out that Irene has betrayed the Prizzis, Charley finds himself on the horns of a dilemma: does he kill Irene or marry her? Fortuitously, Irene helps Charley make up his mind by attempting to kill him. The film's strongest suit is its matter-of-fact approach to Charley and Irene's profession; in the movie's most memorable scene, the two lovers calmly discuss their dinner plans while disposing of the corpse of their latest victim. Nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, Prizzi's Honor won Best Supporting Actress for Huston's daughter Anjelica, playing the 'art imitates life' role of Nicholson's cast-off girl friend. The win made Anjelica, John, and Walter Huston the only three generations of one family all to win Oscars.- Was this review helpful to you?
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By a customer from TUNBRIDGE WELLS, ENGLAND , 04 Nov 2010Subtle, sophisticated black comedy that is all too close to real life. Essentially a treatise on community loyalty, this posits the notion that criminals can never marry out of the criminal fraternity because of a conflict of loyalty. Any attempt to do so will inevitably lead to social ostracism while not marrying the one you love leads to a lonely old age.
Allied with this is the concept of trust and the inability of paid killers to trust each other sexually. This aspect of the movie is the funniest since it deals with the common issues of trust in a sexual relationship. The love that the characters feel for one another is really here nothing more than a desperate and vain attempt to overcome the quintessential lack of confidence between partners of different ethnicities and codes of values.
The performances are indifferent and never quite get to the points raised - with the sole exception of Anjelica HUSTON who enjoys the role of home-wrecker because she clearly understand it so well. Nevertheless, comedies about hit-men are rarely this good and make movies like the remake of Wild Target look like the dreck they truly are.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Interesting movie with big reputation
By VIDEOMONSTER (252 reviews) from Glasgow , 07 Mar 2010Prizzi's Honor is an interesting movie which I didn't quite get but the humour and the quality of the acting is brilliant. It is unfortunately heavily moulded by the Godfather. The ending is a kicker and Angelica Houston puts in brilliant performance with such little screen time earning an oscar for it. In the end it's about her characters honor being restored with all the other subplots trying to distract you. But the thing is it's done in such a way you want to say at the end 'you clever girl'. One to watch when it comes on TV. Drawbacks are that it is a bit slow in terms of pace and it could've been condensed to 90 minutes rather than over 2 hours. Very enjoyable but not to everyones taste.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Inaudible
By boboteacher (2 reviews) from Daventry , 31 Oct 2009Sound on this DVD is appallingly mixed. Background noises make the dialogue inaudible. Shame as it might have been an interesting film, but wasn't promising- Was this review helpful to you?
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Disappointing
By a customer from Reading, England , 19 Sep 2007The problem with this film is that generally the black comedic element is sufficiently dated that it doesn't make it through particularly well.
In spite of Jack Nicholson - who has been far far better elsewhere - and a fine performance from Kathleen Turner, the comedic element ends up shaping this to the modern audience as a very poor Mafia film.- Was this review helpful to you?
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TOP MOVIE !!!
By a customer from GLASGOW , 31 Aug 2005[Highly rated reviewer]
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 Huston) in favor of gorgeous Irene Walker (Kathleen Turner). Supposedly a tax consultant, Irene is actually a paid killer like Charley--and this endears her to him all the more. But when it turns out that Irene has betrayed the Prizzis, Charley finds himself on the horns of a dilemma: does he kill Irene or marry her? Fortuitously, Irene helps Charley make up his mind by attempting to kill him. The film's strongest suit is its matter-of-fact approach to Charley and Irene's profession; in the movie's most memorable scene, the two lovers calmly discuss their dinner plans while disposing of the corpse of their latest victim. Nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, Prizzi's Honor won Best Supporting Actress for Huston's daughter Anjelica, playing the 'art imitates life' role of Nicholson's cast-off girl friend. The win made Anjelica, John, and Walter Huston the only three generations of one family all to win Oscars.- Was this review helpful to you?
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