Prizzi's Honor

Prizzi's Honor (1985)

  • 88% of critics liked it
    (33 reviews)

  • 60% of users liked it
    (7,507 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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Drama, Romance, Comedy
In Theaters
Jun 13, 1985 Wide
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.

  • , Time Out

    A very stylish walk with love and death.

  • 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, Cinema Sight

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

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Anthony L


    A slightly off-kilter but hugely likable comedy that has all the cliches but then again probably created most of them. The performances are pretty good and the list of great actors is pretty long. It's probably pretty far from John Ford's best but with his catalogue of films… More

  • Jim H


    A hit man falls in love with a counterpart who robs his employers. Anjelica Huston's icy but damaged mob daughter earns this film a full star in my book, not mention the Oscar it won Huston. With a cool, reserved vulnerability, her performance is captivating. The rest of the… More

  • Universal D


    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.

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