
Jessie is an aging career criminal who has been in more jails, fights, schemes, and line-ups than just about anyone else. His son Vito, while currently on the straight and narrow, has had a fairly shady past, and is indeed no stranger to illegal activity. They both have great hope for Adam, Vito's son and Jessie's grandson, who is bright, good-looking, and without a criminal past. So when Adam approaches Jessie with a scheme for a burglary he's shocked, but not necessarily un... (Full plot summary below)
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Jessie is an aging career criminal who has been in more jails, fights, schemes, and line-ups than just about anyone else. His son Vito, while currently on the straight and narrow, has had a fairly shady past, and is indeed no stranger to illegal activity. They both have great hope for Adam, Vito's son and Jessie's grandson, who is bright, good-looking, and without a criminal past. So when Adam approaches Jessie with a scheme for a burglary he's shocked, but not necessarily uninterested.
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| Entertainment WeeklyTim AppeloFamily Business is one of Lumet’s very worst movies, but the actors are stellar. |
| eFilmCritic.comScott WeinbergJust barely worth checking out, and even then, it's only for the actors. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleThe three lead characters end the film as isolated as they began it. As with the plot, there isn't quite enough in the throwaway humour to hold them together. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertFamily Business tries to play it down the middle, when it probably should have jumped in one direction or the other, toward a pure caper or toward a family drama. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzThe pleasure is watching Connery shine as a roguish criminal in a story line that never gels. |
| Tampa Bay TimesClark PerryHoff-man and Broderick manage an affecting reconciliation, and Connery remains a peerless charmer. Still, there’s no telling what drew these three to such trite material. It’s like hiring the Rolling Stones and forcing them to sing Barry Manilow. |
| St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe PollackSlapdash Sidney Lumet directs this misbegotten three-star vehicle, an overpowered tricycle of a tale with Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman and Matthew Broderick unconvincing as successive generations of the genetically eclectic McMullen clan. |
| The New York TimesVincent CanbyThe three stars are good actors, but they have nothing much to work with. Their biggest challenge is to make the audience believe they are blood relatives, a question that would be quickly dismissed if the script were more compelling. |
| Chicago TribuneDave KehrA frail little caper movie that’s overawed by its cast. |
| Fantastica DailyChuck O'LearyA terrific seriocomic crime caper that nobody knew how to sell. Often feels like a 1970s movie that somehow ended up in 1989. |