Word: prizzi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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 opens with Charlie at the church wedding or Dominic Prizzi's daughter. Charlie (who is as bored with the wedding as the audience is with the movie's slow start) quickly loses interest in the ceremony and concentrates on the gorgeous Irene Walker (Turner) sitting in the balcony behind him. As you might expect, these two will meet again...
...this point the confusion starts. In the next hour, Don Prizzi, the decrepit "Godfather" of the Prizzi family orders Charlie to kill Marxy Heller, a gangster who has cheated the Prizzi family out of a six-figure sum. After killing Heller, Charlie finds that the gambler is also Irene's husband. Finally, Charlie learns that the reason for Irene's visit to New York was to do some killing for the Prizzi family. Irene it seems, has loyalties only to herself...
...LATER FIND that you can only trust a Prizzi as far as the distance between the rosary beads they hold in one hand and the 45 they carry in the other...