Two professional assassins fall in love.Two professional assassins fall in love.Two professional assassins fall in love.
- Won 1 Oscar
- 27 wins & 25 nominations total
CCH Pounder
- Peaches Altamont
- (as C.C.H. Pounder)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaJohn Huston is the only director to direct two members of his own family to win Academy Awards. The first was his father Walter Huston in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), who won Best Actor in a Supporting Role, then his daughter Anjelica Huston won Best Actress in Supporting Role for this movie.
- GoofsWhen Charley and Irene are riding in her Excalibur, a shadow from the camera rig is visible on the road.
- Quotes
Charley Partanna: [annoyed] Marxie Heller so fuckin' smart, how come he's so fuckin' dead?
Featured review
So many films glorify the mafia, even those like 'Goodfellas' which pull no punches still allow a residue of glamour to stick to their portrayal of the wise-guy life. So 'Prizzi's Honor', which ridicules its protagonists and shows them to be anything but wise, is a welcome sort of mafia film. Unfortunately, although it's reasonably entertaining, the film ultimately doesn't wholly succeed in any respect; too daft to work as black comedy, too slow to work as riotous farce, to humorously conceived to work as tragic drama. Jack Nicholson is good as the dumb hit man Charley, but the plot leaves us unsure whether we should laugh at him or cry with him, and in the end I felt inclined to do neither. Personally, I prefer Jim Jarmusch's 'Ghost Dog', another offbeat look at organised crime.
- paul2001sw-1
- Nov 21, 2005
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Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Languages
- Also known as
- El honor de la familia Prizzi
- Filming locations
- 57 Montague Street, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA(Charley's apartment with the view of the Brooklyn Bridge)
- Production company
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $16,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $26,657,534
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $4,234,537
- Jun 16, 1985
- Gross worldwide
- $26,657,534
- Runtime2 hours 10 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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