Altobello introduces Vincent to Licio Lucchesi, Immobiliare's chairman. Michael tells Vincent to pretend to defect from the Corleone family in order to spy on Altobello. The family goes to Sicily for Anthony's operatic debut in Palermo at the Teatro Massimo. Michael berates Vincent for his actions and insists that Vincent end his relationship with Mary, explaining Vincent's involvement in the family's criminal enterprises endangers her life. During a street festival, Vincent kills Zasa. As Michael recuperates, Vincent and Mary begin a romance, while Neri and Connie give Vincent permission to retaliate against Zasa. Michael realizes that Altobello is the traitor, and suffers a diabetic stroke. Most of the bosses are killed, but Michael, Vincent, and Michael's bodyguard, Al Neri, escape.
Moments later, a helicopter hovers outside the conference room and opens fire. Don Altobello, assuring Michael that he can diplomatically resolve the matter, leaves to speak to Zasa. Zasa receives nothing and, declaring Michael his enemy, storms out. Michael pays them from the sale of his Las Vegas holdings. Immobiliare's board approves the offer, pending ratification by the Pope.ĭon Altobello, a New York Mafia boss and Connie's godfather, tells Michael that his partners on The Commission want in on the Immobiliare deal. He makes a tender offer to buy the Vatican's 25% share in the company, which will give him controlling interest. Michael knows that the head of the Vatican Bank, Archbishop Gilday, has accumulated a massive deficit and offers $600M in exchange for shares in Internazionale Immobiliare, an international real estate company, which would make him its largest single shareholder. Michael, troubled by Vincent's fiery temper yet impressed by his loyalty, agrees to include Vincent in the family business. Michael's sister, Connie Corleone, arranges for Vincent to settle a dispute with his rival, Joey Zasa, but Zasa calls Vincent a bastard, and Vincent bites Zasa's ear. Vincent Mancini, the illegitimate son of Michael's long-dead brother Sonny Corleone, arrives at the reception. Michael and Kay have an uneasy reunion when Kay reveals that she and Anthony know the truth about Fredo's death. Kay supports his decision, but Michael wants Anthony to complete his law degree first nevertheless, Michael agrees to let Anthony go his own way. Patrick's Old Cathedral in Michael's honor, Anthony tells his father that he is leaving law school to become an opera singer. At the reception following a papal order induction ceremony in St.
Michael and Kay are divorced their children, Anthony and Mary, live with Kay. Wracked with guilt over his ruthless rise to power, especially for having ordered his brother Fredo Corleone's assassination, he donates millions to charitable causes. In 1979, Michael Corleone is approaching 60. In December 2020, a re-cut version of the film, titled Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone, was released to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the original version. It grossed $136.8 million and was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. It was released in the United States on Christmas Day, December 25, 1990. It premiered in Beverly Hills on December 20, 1990. The film was distributed by Paramount, which also distributed the previous two films. The Godfather Part III received generally positive reviews, albeit not to the same extent as the earlier two films critics praised Pacino's performance and the screenplay, but criticized the convoluted plot and Sofia Coppola's performance.
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The film also includes fictionalized accounts of two real-life events: the 1978 death of Pope John Paul I and the Papal banking scandal of 1981–1982, both linked to Michael Corleone's business affairs.Ĭoppola and Puzo's intended title for the film was The Death of Michael Corleone, which Paramount Pictures rejected Coppola considers the series to be a duology, while Part III serves as the epilogue.
A sequel to The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974), it concludes the fictional story of Michael Corleone, the patriarch of the Corleone family who attempts to legitimize his criminal empire. It is the third and final installment in The Godfather trilogy. The film stars Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Andy García, Eli Wallach, Joe Mantegna, Bridget Fonda, George Hamilton, and Sofia Coppola. The Godfather Part III is a 1990 American crime film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola from the screenplay co-written with Mario Puzo.
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