The Family

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The Family

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Released Sep 13, 2013

1h 51m

Comedy

Action

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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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Critics Consensus

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

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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

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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

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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

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Sarah Brinks

Battleship Pretension

The stakes in this film are completely backwards.

Feb 24, 2021

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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

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Amy L

Implausible. No one ever sees consequences for their misdeeds. Worse though, is it's unforgivable dullness. Even this talented cast can't overcome the bad script.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/20/25

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Leopold S

Atrocious and tone deaf and unfunny and mawkish. Avoid!!!!

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

08/20/24

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Tamara K

While this movie was basically panned I thought it was great. People need to take it for what it is which is basically a silly movie about people taking matters into their own hands.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

07/27/24

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Manuel F

Look is a good movie overall little twist of the usual gangster movies it was different showing how the family have their own way to handle things

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

06/10/24

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Jason

Why was Michelle Pfeiffer in the role of a mom with a Brooklyn accent when she can do about 8% of a Brooklyn accent? [5.2/10] The parts where the pretty girl hit people in the head were fun.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/24

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Gareth D

Clumsy, cliched, everyone is over the top. Enjoyable for a throwaway mob satire, far from being a good film.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/14/24

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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, Relativity, TF1 Films Productions, EuropaCorp
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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