Prizzi's Honor

Somewhat simpleminded Charley Partanna has indeed taken the life path laid out for him to become an enforcer for the Brooklyn-based Prizzi mob family led by patriarch Don Corrado Prizzi, that job which includes carrying out hits. The police largely turn a blind eye to the Prizzis' dealings of a non-violent nature. The one path set out for Charley that he didn't eventually take is marriage to the Don's interior decorator granddaughter Maerose Prizzi, his ex-fiancee who he's known since childhood. Issues related to their split four years ago has led to Maerose being persona non grata by her family, most specifically her father Dominic Prizzi. Maerose showing up at her sister's wedding is the first time Charley has seen her since their break-up and is in part an effort, a failed one, for her to reestablish her place in the family. At the wedding, Charley also spies a beautiful blonde he's never seen who he eventually meets: Los Angeles-based tax consultant Irene Walker. It's love at first sight for Charley, that love which supersedes all else, including what she eventually admits to him: that she is really a contract assassin, she who was in town to carry out a hit. In that love, Charley also "believes" her story that she knew nothing about her estranged husband's theft of Prizzi money at a Las Vegas casino in she returning half of it. Overcoming the outward issues, Charley and Irene get married, she ultimately able to convince him that she is more of an asset as a fellow hit person in his life than just a housewife. However, there is still the question of the Prizzis, how they collectively will take to Irene permanently within their midst, and by association how she will affect Charley's place in the family.