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Overview

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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Claude Magnier (play)
Michael Barrie (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
26 April 1991 (USA) more
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It's a comedy of criminal proportions!
Plot:
Angelo "Snaps" Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman... more | add synopsis
Awards:
3 nominations more
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Runtime:
109 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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This was the first feature to be shot at the MGM-Disney Studios in Orlando, Florida. more
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Continuity: When Snaps slams Anthony on the table his hands are on his shoulders, in the next shot his hands are around his neck. more
Quotes:
Lisa Provolone: You kept me a prisoner up here - like Rapunzel.
Snaps: Well, you certainly ain't Snow White!
Sophia: Look at the example you've set! Filling the house with thugs, goons and hit men!
Snaps: All right... sometimes I had to bring my work home with me...
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Soundtrack:
SWEET GEORGIA BROWN more

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25 out of 29 people found the following comment useful.
Great, 10 March 1999
Author: drummer-3 from Denmark

I just love to see Sylvester playing anything else but macho studs, and in this movie he does and doesn't if you catch my drift. I think his portrayal of a godfather going straight is fantastic and the whole movie had me in hysterics more than once, fun stuff.!!

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