Frankie and Johnny

Pacinos best not Oscar nominated role as johnie, the cook. funny and romantic. good acting all around i like the line when the waitress asks the fat cook "who do i have to ***** to get a waffle here?" and he... Full review

Pacinos best not Oscar nominated role as johnie, the cook. funny and romantic. good acting all around i like the line when the waitress asks the fat cook "who do i have to ***** to get a waffle here?" and he... Full review

with an excellent performance as a waitress in a down-at-heel coffee shop in NYC. Sounds unlikely, but she actually adapts to the role. Having seen "Dangerous Minds", which was a good film, but somehow she didn't fit that role. "Frankie... Full review

You have to give the filmmakers credit: they did attempt to deglamorize Michelle Pfeffier to fit into Kathy Bates' off-Broadway role of a waitress with no prospects who finds herself attracted to the new cook at the restaurant. Pfeffier's innate... Full review

After their brief encounter in SCARFACE, Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer were reunited for FRANKIE AND JOHNNY, a charming romantic comedy about an ex-con hired to work at a restaurant where he falls in love with one of the waitresses... Full review

I had just watched Frankie and Johnny on DVD and i was delighted that I did. Here is an excellent film that may have been misunderstood by some as a so-so movie which it actually isnt. Frankie and Johnny stars Al... Full review

I had just watched Frankie and Johnny on DVD and i was delighted that I did. Here is an excellent film that may have been misunderstood by some as a so-so movie which it actually isnt. Frankie and Johnny stars Al... Full review

This movie is romantic and good for a one time watch. I almost feel a sleep because it was the same thing over and over again. they break up then get back together. This was not Al Pacino and Michelle Pheifer's... Full review

I cringed when I read the critics reviews posted here and when I read this movie made only 6 million and was considered a bad movie because this movie due to its script is one of the most clever, charming and... Full review

I watch this movie over and over and never tire of it. Each time I notice more nuance. A great exploration of despair and hope, of class consciousness, and true eartly aliveness. Poignant and honest.Michelle plays a depressed soul, beaten... Full review

In its celebration of cautious optimism, Frankie and Johnny becomes the perfect love story for these troubled times. The scene has a special poignancy because the movie has painstakingly built a world with little room for such flights of fancy. ... Full Review

It's important to McNally's conception that Frankie and Johnny not be physically attractive, and it's this fact that makes the film of Frankie & Johnny hop the track. With all those extra cinematic bells and whistles toned down and crammed into a 19-inch small screen, the movie feels more than ever like a situation comedy, albeit one with finely shaded dialogue and first-class acting. ... Full Review

Most of the movie isn't terribly surprising. The movie is trying to be ''honest'' about sex, but instead it merely seems cute. Since the movie is trying to be realistic, this softening gloss sticks out. The movie changes things considerably. ... Full Review

Purists carped at the changes, but overall the film is likeable enough to transcend these carps. As for the stars, Al Pacino is ideally cast as Johnny, but Michelle Pfeiffer, superb though she is, seems a bit ill at ease as the emotionally tattered Frankie; she totally wins the audience's hearts, however, in the film's memorable bowling-alley sequence. ... Full Review

Purists carped at the changes, but overall the film is likeable enough to transcend these carps. As for the stars, Al Pacino is ideally cast as Johnny, but Michelle Pfeiffer , superb though she is, seems a bit ill at ease as the emotionally tattered Frankie; she totally wins the audience's hearts, however, in the film's memorable bowling-alley sequence. ... Full Review

Only Hollywood would cast Michelle Pfeiffer as Frankie, the middle-age waitress at a Hell's Kitchen diner, in the film version of Terrence McNally's "Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune," undermining a premise that, in the right hands, is... ... Full Article

Have you ever wished you could live in a song; perfect pop, a sunny chord progression, stompin' drum line and some aching lyrics that sum up life before everyone lives happily ever after? ... Full Article

In Frankie & Johnny, Michelle Pfeiffer gets the audience's sympathy, and Al Pacino gets their respect, but their laughs go to Nathan Lane. As Pfeiffer's gay next-door neighbor, Lane could bring down a Cineplex with his well-aimed jabs: ''Johnny, I... ... Full Article

In Frankie & Johnny, playwright Terrence McNally has radically refurbished his own two-character, one-set play, "Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune. " Breaking it down into short, snappy scenes, he's populated it with a colorful assortment of new... ... Full Article