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1	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/image_4265.jpeg]]
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3	->''"Do I ice her? Do I marry her?"'''
4	-->--'''Charley Partanna'''
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6	''Prizzi's Honor'' is a 1985 film based on a 1982 novel by Richard Condon. Directed by Creator/JohnHuston, the film stars Creator/JackNicholson, Creator/KathleenTurner, Creator/RobertLoggia, and Creator/AnjelicaHuston, who won an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for her performance.
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8	Charley Partanna (Nicholson) is a hit-man for the Prizzi crime family. One day, at a wedding, he meets Irene Walker (Turner), who's also a hit-woman. Charley inadvertently kills her husband, and after a courtship, he marries her. However, Irene has been keeping money her late ex-husband stole from the mob. The Prizzis then hire the two of them to take out each other. But neither knows the other's true identity.
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11	!!This work features examples of:
12	* CopKillerManhunt: While the police are normally [[CorruptCop totally in the pocket of the mafia]], [[spoiler:after a policeman's wife is killed during a hit]], they call off their special arrangement until the killer is turned in or killed.
13	* DoYouWantToCopulate: When Charley, reeling after finding out what Irene does for a living (as well as the fact she was married to a guy Charley killed, and has stolen money from the family), goes to visit Maerose, Maerose asks him point-blank, "You want to do it?...Let's do it."
14	-->'''Charley:''' With all the lights on?\
15	'''Maerose:''' Yeah. Right here. On the Oriental. With all the lights on.
16	* EvenEvilHasStandards: Irene tosses out a baby (actually a doll) to distract a bodyguard as she goes for her gun. He ignores it and goes for his gun. Irene is not happy:
17	-->"I can't get over it. What kinda creep wouldn't catch a baby? If it was real it coulda been crippled for life."
18	* EvilOldFolks: Don Corrado.
19	* HeyCatch: The Baby Doll distraction. Subverted as it doesn't work.
20	* IdiotHero: Charley isn't the brightest bulb in the box.
21	* InLoveWithTheMark: A two-sided version!
22	* LivingWithTheVillain: Irene and Charley.
23	* PrettyLittleHeadshots: During the kidnapping attempt, a well-dressed woman, [[spoiler:who turns out to be the wife of the Police Commissioner]], inadvertently walks out of an elevator into the middle of the fracas. She only has time to remark, "I must have the wrong floor" before Irene shoots her in the center of her forehead, leaving a neat, bloodless hole as the woman's body topples backward.
24	* SingleStrokeBattle: Charley and Irene's final confrontation ends in this. [[spoiler:Her shot misses, his knife doesn't.]]
25	* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Charley throws his knife [[spoiler:straight into Irene's neck]] in the climax.
26	* TheUnfavorite: Dominic Prizzi. Whether he's a {{Jerkass}} because of this or vice versa remains to be seen.
27	* TheVamp: Maerose, who can be quite the ManipulativeBitch if needs be.

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