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The Family

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After ratting out his Mafia cohorts, Giovanni Manzioni (Robert De Niro) and his family enter the Witness Protection Program and relocate to a French town. Despite the best efforts of their handler (Tommy Lee Jones) to keep them in line, Giovanni (now called Fred Blake), his wife (Michelle Pfeiffer) and children (Dianna Agron, John D'Leo) can't help but resort to doing things the "family" way. However, their dependence on such old habits places everyone in danger from vengeful mobsters.
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Luc Besson's The Family suffers from an overly familiar setup and a number of jarring tonal shifts.

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Donald Clarke Irish Times Unfortunately, The Family suffers from an extreme case of advanced tonal disorder. Rated: 1/5 Nov 27, 2013 Full Review Mark Kermode Observer (UK) It's throwaway stuff, packed with corny gags about rich French cooking and annoying Gallic manners, in which light relief is offered by the sight of our hero torturing a plumber; think The Whole Nine Yards with cheese. Rated: 2/5 Nov 24, 2013 Full Review Charlotte O'Sullivan London Evening Standard Clearly, De Niro is happy to cannibalise his glorious past, but for those of us who love him, it's like sucking on old bones. Rated: 2/5 Nov 22, 2013 Full Review Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review The Family mishandles almost every attempt at humor and tries to make a lovable, “Tony Soprano Lite” character out of Giovanni, except the paterfamilias is far too mean-spirited to win us over. Rated: 2/4 Aug 23, 2022 Full Review Sarah Brinks Battleship Pretension The stakes in this film are completely backwards. Feb 24, 2021 Full Review Mike Massie Gone With The Twins The tone shifts drastically from comedy to drama to action, while wasting character development on asinine subplots. Rated: 4/10 Dec 3, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

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Yuri B This was so over the top. Everything that happened was insane. How does any of that happen in real life. How are the local authorities not involved?!? Jesus... Smh Rated 3 out of 5 stars 04/18/25 Full Review Peter D A little trite but good acting and kept me engaged if not very entertained. RT are bunch of annoying DBs where no one pays attention to their pretentious opinions anyway. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 04/06/25 Full Review Busisiwe X This is one of the movies I don't know how many times I have watched it, but I just can't get enough of it. Love everything about this movie the the craziness of the family it's just amazing. In my Top 10 best movies Rated 5 out of 5 stars 04/01/25 Full Review Diaulas F Luc Besson faz desse filme, um ótimo filme sim! Pfeiffer e DeNiro são perfeitos. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/01/25 Full Review Fergus J This movie is nothing short of execrable. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/24/25 Full Review Jeepers C Is this Goodfellows, and the answer is no. It's still a good little movie about the mob. Robert Dinero plays a ex mobster thats hiding his family in a witness protection program. He and his family are trying to lay low and integrate into French Society. Every thing was going fine until the mob finds out where they have been hiding. It's a dark comedy, layed out in amob setting, that is entertaining and has a suspenseful ending. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/23/25 Full Review Read all reviews
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Luc Besson

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Robert De Niro

Fred

Tommy Lee Jones

Agent Stansfield

Michelle Pfeiffer

Maggie

Dianna Agron

Belle

John D'Leo

Warren

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Synopsis After ratting out his Mafia cohorts, Giovanni Manzioni (Robert De Niro) and his family enter the Witness Protection Program and relocate to a French town. Despite the best efforts of their handler (Tommy Lee Jones) to keep them in line, Giovanni (now called Fred Blake), his wife (Michelle Pfeiffer) and children (Dianna Agron, John D'Leo) can't help but resort to doing things the "family" way. However, their dependence on such old habits places everyone in danger from vengeful mobsters.
Director
Luc Besson
Producer
Virginie Silla, Ryan Kavanaugh
Screenwriter
Luc Besson, Michael Caleo
Distributor
Relativity Media
Production Co
Grive Productions, EuropaCorp, Relativity, TF1 Films Productions
Rating
R (Language|Brief Sexuality|Violence)
Genre
Comedy, Action
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Sep 13, 2013, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Oct 25, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA)
$114.5K
Runtime
1h 51m
Sound Mix
Datasat, SDDS, Dolby Digital
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