Prizzi's Honor

Prizzi's Honor (1985)

  • 88% of critics liked it
    (33 reviews)

  • 60% of users liked it
    (7,322 ratings)

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… More

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R, 2 hr. 10 min.
Directed By
John Huston
Genres
Drama, Romance, Comedy
In Theaters
Jun 13, 1985 Wide
On DVD
Mar 13, 2001
Fox

Critic Reviews

  • Variety Staff, Variety

    John Huston's Prizzi's Honor packs love, sex, and murder -- and dark comedy -- into a labyrinthine tale.

  • Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

    As usual, Turner works hard and manages to lend some conviction to a shoddily written part, but she can't connect with Nicholson, whose obscure hamminess leaves him isolated on some other planet.

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

    This is the most bizarre comedy in many a month, a movie so dark, so cynical and so funny that perhaps only Jack Nicholson and Kathleen Turner could have kept straight faces during the love scenes.

  • Wesley Lovell, Oscar Guy

    Almost every possible mob film has been made, but this one still feels inventive and engaging.

  • Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

    John Huston's dark, cynical comedy about the Mafia, one of his last pictures, suffers from the lack of chemistry between Jack Nicholson and Kathleen Turner, but Anjelica Huston is excellent in a well-deserving Oscar-winning turn.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • moon r


    John Huston has a little fun with the by now typical New York family crime tale when one of their main killers spots a beautiful blonde at a Mob wedding and is instantly smitten. There's a catch though ... she's a contract killer too. Nicholson and Turner are good enough… More

  • Michael G


    For as much as I remember Prizzi's Honor getting talked up when I was a kid, as an adult I've got to ask what the hell the big goddamn deal was about. The story sets up an interesting premise but takes some major lapses in logic (even if the only mafia movie you've ever… More

  • AJ V


    This is an utterly brilliant romantic gangster thriller movie, it's awesome, the cast is awesome too, I highly recommend this movie.

  • Thomas B


    A little muddled. Full review later.

  • ♥˩ƳИИ &


    Jack Nicholson plays a hit man who falls in love with a woman who is in the same line of work as him. They both later on get a hit on eachother. Its like the 80's version of todays Mr. and Mrs. Smith. The difference is they know each other's line of work, and it's more… More

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