Frankie and Johnny | | Cast : | Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer | | Director : | Garry Marshall | | Studio : | Paramount Home Video | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | October 11, 1991 | | DVD Released Date : | December 11, 2001 | | Language : | English (Subtitled), English (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 21, 2005 | | Summary | Man, its impossible not to laugh with some delight at that scene...anyway, a good decent movie | Content
 | Please, when you see al pacino coming out of the kitchen's catacombs with a bandana,you immdiately remember tony montana washing dishes and shaking himself in fury saying "I DIDNT COME TO AMERICA TO BREAK MY BACK"...just because of that scene, 4 stars were guaranteed!
For a romantic movie, its on an acceptable level, although I get the feeling something more should've been done with that fine cast of actors,hummmmmm...maybe pacino's forte is portraying borderline dark characters and not losers with a heart, i think.
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| Rating | | | Date | May 25, 2005 | | Summary | Pfeiffer and Pacino | Content
| This is one of the lesser known and appreciated screen gems of the 90's. It's a superior romantic-comedy-drama which stars two screen legends Pacino and Pfeiffer. The movie is so much more about the love story. It is a very perceptive movie about people who are lonely and people who are trapped into their own lives. The movie has an achingly melancholic mood.
The casting of Michelle Pfeiffer was controversial at that time because the original role on Broadway was played by Kathy Bates and a lot of people think Pfeiffer was too beautiful for the role. Bates reportedly laughed when she learned hat Pfeiffer got the role. Granted that the reason Pfeifer probably got the role was because at that time she was at the height of her popularity, she was the "it" girl then. But Pfeiffer was phenomenal and proved that she deserved the part. Her beauty was toned down to make her look as ordinary as possible. The character she played has so much depth and layer that is pretty uncommon for films generally regarded as romance films.
Pacino of course was good, this is his and Pfeiffer's second team up after Scarface of course I love the fact that he played the role with such ease and charm which is a lot different from his more serious roles before. The supporting actors Nathan Lane and Kate Nelligan stole some scenes
Of all the movies of Pfeiffer this is one of my all time favorites together with Fabulous Baker Boys, Married to the Mob, One Fine Day, and Batman Returns to name a few. I whole-heartedly recommend this film.
Grade: A- |
| Rating | | | Date | October 20, 2004 | | Summary | SOOO ROMANTIC.... | Content
| This movie is my all time favorite! Ladies if you have an afternoon free and want to chill and watch a wonderful chick flick, This is the one! |
| Rating | | | Date | August 10, 2004 | | Summary | a must have romantic movie | Content
| After renting this movie several times I finally bought it to save money. I think watching the 1st time is when I fell in love with Michelle Pfeiffer. Al Pacino is quite humorous & amorous as Frankie with M.P. as Johnny. If you like romantic movies with humorous & serious scenes, I recommend this. The soundtrack is good too. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 25, 2004 | | Summary | The Movie Is Better The Second Time Around | Content
| Thre are a lot of things to like about this movie. The supporting actors to a person are perfectly cast. It's hard not to believe that the director just took over a Greek greasy spoon in New York and used its employees. You can literally smell the grease as the short-order cooks scramble the eggs and bacon. And you can feel the loneliness in the pit of your stomach as these characters go home to their less-than-fine apartments. They are the people Barbara Ehrenreich writes about in NICKEL AND DIMED. Robert Frost would say they have nothing to look backward to with pride and nothing to look forward to with hope. Paul McCartney would call them Eleanor Rigby. Many of them will never rise about their minimum wage-plus tips jobs; yet they show a resilence and endurance and manage to find laughter in their dismal jobs that is heart-warming.
This film has as good a portrayal of gay characters as you are likely to see. Terrence McNally has created here two, believable, likeable gay men who act like real people. There is a quite funny scene when Al Pacino meets the gay couple for the first time and makes all the usual mistakes though well-intentioned-- he didn't realize, you would never know, he just found out that his cousin is gay-- to which Nathan Lane quips that he will check the cousin out in the new listings.
This movie says that a short-order cook (Al Pacino) recently released from prison can find happiness with a waitress (Michelle Pfeiffer) with broken dreams. That may be a tall challenge, but most of us would like to believe in that possibility. It's all about starting over, taking a chance, tearing down the walls that separate most of us from each other and taking a chance on love.
Michelle Pfeiffer cleans up well and is almost too pretty to be a down-and-out waitress. But then, nobody's perfect. |
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