Prizzi's Honor

Prizzi's Honor (1985) is an American feature film, directed by John Huston. The film is classified under the genre crime comedy. The film stars including Jack Nicholson,Kathleen Turner and Anjelica Huston.

Anjelica Huston won the Oscar for best supporting actress for her role in Prizzi's Honor. The film was also nominated for seven other Oscars. ==Story[ Edit] == Angelo Partanna and his son, the assassin Charley Partanna, are both employees within the most powerful Mafia family of New York: the Prizzi 's. Like all members of the family also has the bloedeed Prizzi, Charley vowed. This means that the honor of Prizzi above all and that he has to protect his life if need be with that always. In Exchange, his family also in turn promises to protect forever.

On a wedding party of the granddaughter of Don Corrado Prizzi, the head of the family, meet Charley a certain Irene Walker. It is love at first sight and it will not be long against that the two begin a love affair. Charley gradually discovers that his beloved is not always fair turns out to be against him. He comes to know that they have among other things also in the assassins-business and even worse, that they stole $ 360,000 of the Prizzi 's. Charley faces a dilemma: if he sticks to his promise to protect the honor of Prizzi to return the money, he must disable and Irene as he opts for Irene he violates bloedeed. He chooses for her, he can not deny his love. He tells the Prizzi's nothing and he marries quickly and secretly with Irene.

Then the problems begin to pile up. First of all, there is the ex-fiance of Maerose Prizzi, Charley, who throws a spanner in the works by Don Corrado Prizzi about what she discovers that Irene has robbed him. Then there is something wrong during one of the criminal activities of the Prizzi 's: the wife of a police inspector unwittingly becomes shot, by Irene. This creates a lot of pressure on the Mafia family because of the police, that this issue is not resolved with more kickbacks but require that the offender be extradited. Then there's Dominic Prizzi, a son of Don Corrado Prizzi, who knows nothing of the marriage between Charley and Irene, and hires her to kill her own husband, Charley, so. When Dominic himself is murdered, suspicion arises for everyone and Charley opposes ultimately against the Prizzi 's.

The only way to save the family Prizzi to Charley to get back at the family and the police to appease with the dead body of the killer on the wife of that police inspector, Irene so. Charley is even promoted to succeed Don Corrado Prizzi, but he must first have his honor to the family, which he had broken through to keep quiet about the money that Irene had stolen, recovery. He must kill are Irene. He succeeds in this and thus wins the favor of the Prizzi's but the love of his life is he lost once and for all.