Product: Frankie and Johnny [VHS] (1991)
Rating: 4.0
Feel good movie
Al Pacino is an ex-con (minor forgery was his crime) who's learned how to cook in the slammer; when he gets out he comes to NYC and takes a job as a short-order cook in a Greek restaurant. Here he meets and falls in love with waitress Michelle Pfeiffer - only she's got a head full of bad memories with men and resists Pacino like the plague. He keeps plugging away, though, and predictably wins her over. It's a feel-good movie through and through, and some of the techniques used to get the two together - a song heard on the radio, for example - are pretty trite. But the two principals do a very credible acting job, and the movie pushes all the right buttons to achieve its happy conclusion.