Prizzi’s Honor

Far more satisfying was Prizzi’s Honor (1985), a stylized version of Richard Condon’s novel (adapted by Condon and Janet Roach) about the Mafia. Jack Nicholson delivered what many critics considered to be among his best performances as mob hit man Charley Partanna. He falls for a woman (Kathleen Turner)…

…a copy of the novel Prizzi’s Honor by Richard Condon in the hopes that she would consider playing manipulative Mafia daughter Maerose. Nicholson persuaded her father to direct, and he himself appeared as a Mafia hit man who was the object of Maerose’s obsessive affections. For her role in the…

…a soldier in John Huston’s Prizzi’s Honor starring Jack Nicholson and Kathleen Turner. He followed up with roles in such movies as Who’s That Girl (1987), Monkey Shines (1988), and Slaves of New York (1989). His first television appearance was in a 1987 episode of the NBC drama Crime Story.…

In Prizzi’s Honor (1985), Turner played a contract killer who falls in love with her partner. For her performance in Francis Ford Coppola’s Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), as a woman who time-travels back to her high-school days, she received an Academy Award nomination for best…