Family business

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Movie
German title Family business
Original title Family business
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1989
length 108 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Sidney Lumet
script Vincent Patrick
production Lawrence Gordon
Burtt Harris
Jennifer Ogden
music Cy Coleman
camera Andrzej Bartkowiak
cut Andrew Mondshein
occupation

Family Business (alternative title in German-speaking countries: Ehrbare Ganoven ) is an American crime comedy from 1989. It was directed by Sidney Lumet and the screenplay was written based on Vincent Patrick's own novel . The main roles were played by Sean Connery , Dustin Hoffman and Matthew Broderick .

action

Vito McMullen used to accompany his father, Jessie, who had several criminal records, during a few break-ins, then he broke with him. He now runs a small butcher's business. His 23-year-old son Adam dropped out of college shortly before graduation. Adam persuades Jessie and Vito to break into the premises of a high-tech company to steal valuable genetic material and a laboratory notebook. When a break-in occurs, everything goes smoothly at first, you can overwhelm a guard and find the test tubes you are looking for. When they realize they have forgotten the lab notebook as they leave the building, Adam goes back to get it. However, he triggers an alarm so that the police are alerted and arrested. However, he can throw away the laboratory notebook beforehand.

When it turns out that Adam may have to go to jail for 15 years, Vito wants him and Jessie to face up and hand over the loot, but cannot convince Jessie. When Vito tells his wife about it, she threatens to file a complaint if he doesn't turn himself in to exonerate Adam. Jessie finds out that the person who commissioned the break-in was one of the researchers who tried to hide the failure of the experiments by making the samples disappear in order to gain more time. Finally Vito surrenders and Jessie is arrested as well. At the trial, Adam and Vito are sentenced to several years probation. Adam's grandfather Jessie is sentenced to 15 plus 10 years. He had not surrendered the loot and blackmailed the client from the company, thus enabling Adam to receive a mild sentence.

Jessie dies after about a year in prison. Adam and Vito are slowly getting back together. Towards the end of the film, Adam asks his father what he has enjoyed the most over the past few years. Vito admits that this was the break-in.

Reviews

Roger Ebert wondered in the Chicago Sun-Times of December 15, 1989 whether the film was more of a crime film or a family drama. He praised the leading actors but found the end of the film disappointing.

The lexicon of international films said: “More interested in the characters and their ethnic peculiarities than in action-packed plot, tragic comedy with fairytale features, which fails despite careful direction because of the mediocrity and slowness of the story. Still more entertaining and intelligently entertaining than many other examples of the genre. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Family Business. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used