Word: prizzi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...confusion mounts during the second half of the movie, in which killing after killing jars any viewers the movie's beginning may have put to sleep. Dominic Prizzi contracts Irene (whom he doesn't know is Charlie's wife) to kill Charlie, with whom he has a jealous rivalry. Don Prizzi tells his godson that he wants him to take over the family. The Don rids to the family of Dominic by shipping him-off to Las Vegas with a set of sterling golf clubs. Charlie decides to kill Dominic, just to make sure it's not a trap...
...order to take over the Prizzi family, though. Charlie must cover up one of Irene's boo-boo's--an unintentional murder in a kidnaping/killing job they did together. Unfortunately for both of them, this also means covering up Irene (with six feet of dirt). Irene is no dummy, though, and quickly understands that her mate is out for her life...
...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...
Only MacRose Prizzi (portrayed marvelously by Anjelica Huston, the director's daughter) has real spunk. As the bastard of the family, her father for her loose sexuality exiled MacRose. She and Charlie had been an item for years before an argument sent her to Mexico. When she returns to the family, it is to get Charlie back--her self-proclaimed raison d'etre...
...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...