Word: honored
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...broad variations on them. In El Paso, public secondary schools are using the High Intensity Language Training program that emphasizes training in English as a second language. Until 1982, many of El Paso's Hispanic high schoolers either failed or dropped out. Today HILT students regularly appear on the honor roll; many are members of the National Honor Society and several have graduated at the top of their classes...
...last thing you notice about Prizzi's Honor is that the credits at the end of the film roll by too fast for you to catch the names of any of the actors except the two main stars...
Unfortunately, the film itself, though it features some of the funnier lines of the year, does not rate as highly as many of the performances. Prizzi's Honor is one of the best films of 1985, but this is only because there haven't been many good movies released this year. The acting is top-notch, despite some flawed Italian accents, but the movie is too long and too complicated for it to be considered a great...
...film is also marred by the oh-too-familiar portrayal of the Italian Prizzi family, although an actor whose name could not be wonderfully portrays Don Prizzi killed them for the speeding credits) as a living, breathing corpse. The wives killed them for the honor of the family), except for Dominic's obsequious Annamae Prizzi, who hands him his paste on silver platter and then returns to domestic work...
...fact, that's the problem with Prizzi's Honor as a whole. Unless you can understand exactly what is happening, it seems like a lot of killing and a lot of people owing each other a lot of different amounts of money. If you don't mind waiting until after the movie to decide whether you liked it, see Prizzi's Honor. You certainly won't have time to make up your mind during the credits...