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Overview

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Director:
John Landis
Writers (WGA):
Claude Magnier (play)
Michael Barrie (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
26 April 1991 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Crime more
Tagline:
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
User Comments:
A comedic gangster film?? Yes, & it works! more (102 total)

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Additional Details

Runtime:
109 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English | Italian
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby

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Trivia:
The club where Anthony tells Angelo Provolone he met his daughter is called Club 33, which is a real private club hidden in Disneyland. more
Goofs:
Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Aldo makes reference to Little Anthony and his Imperial. While we take this as an anachronistic reference to the doo-wop group, he could have meant it only as a reference to the car, so it's not wrong for him. more
Quotes:
Snaps: [Theresa is looking for Anthony and is asking Snaps where she might be able to find him] I may have an idea where he is.
Theresa: Where.
Snaps: Closer than I thought. Now I want you to stay here and don't come out. You owe me this sister.
Connie: I thought she was your daughter.
Snaps: Shut up!
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Movie Connections:
References My Fair Lady (1964) more
Soundtrack:
FINUCCI BOOGIE more

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28 out of 34 people found the following comment useful.
A comedic gangster film?? Yes, & it works!, 6 June 2000
Author: Dianna Trent from nj

If you love Sly, if you love comedy, if you love gangster films, then this one's for you! It's got all that & more! Marisa Tomei playing Sly's daughter?? It works! The beautiful Italian import, Ornella Muti playing Sly's wife? It works! Chazz Palminteri playing a hood yet once again? That always works! Whatcha got here is 1 Mob Boss (the ever-elegant Sly) tryin' to go straight 'cuz he promised his dying father (Kirk Douglas's cameo), cops who just won't buy it, bankers who can't stand it, a mix-up with "a little black bag", a search for a husband for Sly's daughter, an annoying accountant who skims $$$ off the top to marry Sly's "other daughter, the one that's not Lisa", & this all happens in ONE MORNING!! Ya gotta feel sorry for the guy! How can he cope? He does it - just as Sly as he can be, too!

Buy this one if you can still find it. It's a comedy of 'great ethnic proportions'!

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