Prizzi's Honor is a
1985 black comedy film that tells the story of a
mob hit man and hit woman who fall in
love, even though they have been hired to kill each other. It stars
Jack Nicholson,
Kathleen Turner,
Robert Loggia and
Anjelica Huston.
The movie was adapted by
Richard Condon and Janet Roach from Condon's novel. It was directed by
John Huston. Its score, composed by
Alex North, adapts the music of
Giacomo Puccini and
Gioachino Rossini .
Pauline Kael wrote of it: "This John Huston picture has a ripe and daring comic tone. It revels voluptuously in the murderous finagling of the members of a Brooklyn Mafia family, and rejoices in their scams. It's like
The Godfather acted out by
The Munsters. Jack Nicholson's average-guyness as Charley, the clan's enforcer, is the film's touchstone: this is a baroque comedy about people who behave in ordinary ways in grotesque circumstances, and it has the juice of everyday family craziness in it."
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