Family business movie wiki

What does Sidney Lumet’s “Family Business” want to be?

Family business movie wiki

A caper movie, or a family drama? I ask because the movie seems to pursue both goals with equal success until about the three-quarter mark and then leaves leftover details of the caper hanging disconcertingly in midair.

I was distracted during the movie’s important final scenes by a large unanswered question, which I’ll get to later.

Good news first.

The movie stars Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman and Matthew Broderick as three generations of the same family, all touched one way or another by crime. Connery, the grandfather, is a Scotsman whose arrest record is as long as his arm.

He lives by one of those macho criminal codes in which you haven’t proven anything unless you’ve proven it with your fists, and as the movie opens he’s in jail after getting in a bar brawl with an off-duty policeman.

Hoffman is Connery’s son, half Scots and half Sicilian (“He’d be 5 inch