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* StupidEvil: Adam, for not doing so much as an iota of research and preparation for his burglary - and not even having the good sense to bring gloves.
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Jessie [=McMullen=] (Connery) is the Scottish-American patriarch of a family of career criminals, including his half-Sicilian son Vito (Hoffman) and grandson Adam (Broderick). Vito has [[ReformedCrook left a life of crime behind]], but the college-educated Adam remains loyal to his grandfather. Reluctantly, Vito joins his father and son on a big-time heist involving millions of dollars' worth of test-tube specimens.
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Jessie [=McMullen=] (Connery) is the Scottish-American patriarch of a family of career criminals, including his half-Sicilian son Vito (Hoffman) and grandson Adam (Broderick). Vito has [[ReformedCrook [[ReformedCriminal left a life of crime behind]], but the college-educated Adam remains loyal to his grandfather. Reluctantly, Vito joins his father and son on a big-time heist involving millions of dollars' worth of test-tube specimens.
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Jessie [=McMullen=] (Connery) is the Scottish-American patriarch of a family of career criminals, including his half-Sicilian son Vito (Hoffman) and grandson Adam (Broderick). Vito has gone legit, [[ReformedCrook left a life of crime behind]], but the college-educated Adam remains loyal to his grandfather. Reluctantly, Vito joins his father and son on a big-time heist involving millions of dollars' worth of test-tube specimens.
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''Family Business'' is a 1989 film directed by Creator/SidneyLumet with a screenplay by Vincent Patrick, based on his novel. It stars Creator/SeanConnery, Creator/DustinHoffman and Creator/MatthewBroderick. [=Jessie McMullen (Connery)=], is the Irish-Scottish American patriarch of a family of career criminals, including his half-Sicilian son Vito (Hoffman) and grandson Adam (Broderick). Vito has gone legit, but college-educated Adam remains loyal to his grandfather. Reluctantly, Vito joins his father and son on a big-time heist involving millions of dollars' worth of test-tube specimens.
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''Family Business'' is a 1989 film directed by Creator/SidneyLumet with a screenplay by Vincent Patrick, based on his novel. It stars Creator/SeanConnery, Creator/DustinHoffman and Creator/MatthewBroderick. [=Jessie McMullen (Connery)=], is the Irish-Scottish American patriarch of a family of career criminals, including his half-Sicilian son Vito (Hoffman) and grandson Adam (Broderick). Vito has gone legit, but college-educated Adam remains loyal to his grandfather. Reluctantly, Vito joins his father and son on a big-time heist involving millions of dollars' worth of test-tube specimens.
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''Family Business'' is a 1989 [[TheCaper caper]] film directed by
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* PlayingGertrude: Sean Connery and Dustin Hoffman play father and son and are seven years apart in real life.
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* BookEnds: The film opens with a tracking shot of NYC, which comes to rest on a small pile of white powder sitting on a rooftop parapet. It closes on the powder (which we now know to be [[spoiler:Jesse's ashes]]) blowing away in the wind, and the camera returns to the tracking shot.
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--> '''Jesse:''' "....when [Pee-Wee] opened the door for us, he was dripping blood. Hundreads of little gashes where he'd ripped himself to shreds on the heads of the nails going through. Vito, that dwarf had heart."
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--> '''Jesse:''' "....when [Pee-Wee] opened the door for us, he was dripping blood. Hundreads Hundreds of little gashes where he'd ripped himself to shreds on the heads of the nails going through. Vito, that dwarf had heart."
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''Family Business'' is a 1989 film directed by Creator/SidneyLumet with a screenplay by Vincent Patrick, based on his novel. It stars Creator/SeanConnery, Creator/DustinHoffman and Creator/MatthewBroderick. [=Jessie McMullen(Connery)=], is the Irish-Scottish American patriarch of a family of career criminals, including his half-Sicilian son Vito (Hoffman) and grandson Adam (Broderick). Vito has gone legit, but college-educated Adam remains loyal to his grandfather. Reluctantly, Vito joins his father and son on a big-time heist involving millions of dollars' worth of test-tube specimens.
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''Family Business'' is a 1989 film directed by Creator/SidneyLumet with a screenplay by Vincent Patrick, based on his novel. It stars Creator/SeanConnery, Creator/DustinHoffman and Creator/MatthewBroderick. [=Jessie McMullen(Connery)=], McMullen (Connery)=], is the Irish-Scottish American patriarch of a family of career criminals, including his half-Sicilian son Vito (Hoffman) and grandson Adam (Broderick). Vito has gone legit, but college-educated Adam remains loyal to his grandfather. Reluctantly, Vito joins his father and son on a big-time heist involving millions of dollars' worth of test-tube specimens.
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''Family Business'' is a 1989 film directed by Creator/SidneyLumet with a screenplay by Vincent Patrick, based on his novel. It stars Creator/SeanConnery, Creator/DustinHoffman and Creator/MatthewBroderick. [=Jessie McMullen(Connery)=], is the Irish-Scottish American patriarch of a family of career criminals, including his half Sicilian half-Sicilian son Vito (Hoffman) and grandson Adam (Broderick). Vito has gone legit, but college-educated Adam remains loyal to his grandfather. Reluctantly, Vito joins his father and son on a big-time heist involving millions of dollars' worth of test-tube specimens.
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* AirVentPassageway: Subverted in Jesse's "Pee-Wee Grogan Story." On one of Vito and Jesse's warehouse robberies from years ago, a "tough little thief" named Pee-Wee Grogan squeezed through an air-conditioning duct to get them into the warehouse, but did not come out unscathed:
--> '''Jesse:''' "....when [Pee-Wee] opened the door for us, he was dripping blood. Hundreads of little gashes where he'd ripped himself to shreds on the heads of the nails going through. Vito, that dwarf had heart."
--> '''Jesse:''' "....when [Pee-Wee] opened the door for us, he was dripping blood. Hundreads of little gashes where he'd ripped himself to shreds on the heads of the nails going through. Vito, that dwarf had heart."
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* BerserkButton: You do ''not'' threaten Vito's family. Torres, the meat worker who's stealing from Vito's business, learns this lesson the hard way, as Vito smashes his face in and deals him a few kicks to the abdomen.
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* TranquilFury: Vito is eerily calm when he beats up the meat worker who threatens his family, never even saying a word after.
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* NeverMyFault: Jessie refuses to acknowledge that he was a bad father or that he deserves Vito's dislike and mistrust based on his past.
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* ManipulativeBastard: Jessie
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* ThreeSuccessfulGenerations: There's Jessie, who is proud of his criminal past and lifestyle, his son Vito, who now runs a thriving wholesale Twelfth Avenue meat packing warehouse and has left his criminal past behind him, and his grandson Adam, who is in college with a scientific scholarship and seemingly has a bright future ahead of him.
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* ThreeSuccessfulGenerations: There's Jessie, who is proud of his criminal past and lifestyle, his son Vito, who now runs a thriving wholesale Twelfth Avenue meat packing warehouse and has left his criminal past behind him, and his grandson Adam, who is in college with a scientific scholarship and seemingly has a bright future ahead of him.him.
* VillainProtagonist: Jessie, and to a lesser extent Adam.
* VillainProtagonist: Jessie, and to a lesser extent Adam.
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* DirtyCoward: Adam shows signs of this when he realizes just how dangerous a life of crime actually is. Jessie may also have some of this whether he admits it or not, the way he runs out on people.
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Family Business is a 1989 film directed by Creator/SidneyLumet with a screenplay by Vincent Patrick, based on his novel. It stars Creator/SeanConnery, Creator/DustinHoffman and Creator/MatthewBroderick. [=Jessie McMullen(Connery)=], is the Irish Irish-Scottish American patriarch of a family of career criminals, including his half Sicilian son Vito (Hoffman) and grandson Adam (Broderick). Vito has gone legit, but college-educated Adam remains loyal to his grandfather. Reluctantly, Vito joins his father and son on a big-time heist involving millions of dollars' worth of test-tube specimens.
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* HeyItsThatGuy:
** [[SantaClausConquersTheMartians Dropo]] plays Doheny, the bar owner who passes away during the course of the film.
** Victoria Jackson plays Adam's scheming girlfriend Christine.
** [[StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry Azetbur]] as Elaine.
** Well-known character actor Luis Guzman (''BoogieNights'', ''CarlitosWay'') as the meat worker roughed up by Vito.
** [[Film/BackToTheFuture Mr. Strickland]] as the judge who [[spoiler: throws the book at Jesse.]]
* HeyItsThatGuy:
** [[SantaClausConquersTheMartians Dropo]] plays Doheny, the bar owner who passes away during the course of the film.
** Victoria Jackson plays Adam's scheming girlfriend Christine.
** [[StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry Azetbur]] as Elaine.
** Well-known character actor Luis Guzman (''BoogieNights'', ''CarlitosWay'') as the meat worker roughed up by Vito.
** [[Film/BackToTheFuture Mr. Strickland]] as the judge who [[spoiler: throws the book at Jesse.]]
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** [[SantaClausConquersTheMartians Dropo]] plays Doheny,
** Victoria Jackson plays Adam's scheming girlfriend Christine.
** [[StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry Azetbur]] as Elaine.
** Well-known character actor Luis Guzman (''BoogieNights'', ''CarlitosWay'') as the meat worker roughed up by Vito.
** [[Film/BackToTheFuture Mr. Strickland]] as the judge who [[spoiler: throws the book at Jesse.]]
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** [[SantaClausConquersTheMartians Dropo]] plays Doheny, the bar owner who passes away during the course of the film.
** Victoria Jackson is a OneSceneWonder playing Adam's scheming girlfriend Christine.
** [[StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry Azetbur]] as Elaine.
** Well-known character actor Luis Guzman (''BoogieNights'', ''CarlitosWay'') as the meat worker roughed up by Vito.
** [[BackToTheFuture Mr. Strickland]] as the judge who [[spoiler: throws the book at Jesse.]]
** [[SantaClausConquersTheMartians Dropo]] plays Doheny, the bar owner who passes away during the course of the film.
** Victoria Jackson is a OneSceneWonder playing Adam's scheming girlfriend Christine.
** [[StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry Azetbur]] as Elaine.
** Well-known character actor Luis Guzman (''BoogieNights'', ''CarlitosWay'') as the meat worker roughed up by Vito.
** [[BackToTheFuture Mr. Strickland]] as the judge who [[spoiler: throws the book at Jesse.]]
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Family Business is a 1989 film directed by SidneyLumet Creator/SidneyLumet with a screenplay by Vincent Patrick, based on his novel. It stars SeanConnery, DustinHoffman Creator/SeanConnery, Creator/DustinHoffman and MatthewBroderick.Creator/MatthewBroderick. [=Jessie McMullen(Connery)=], is the Irish American patriarch of a family of career criminals, including his half Sicilian son Vito (Hoffman) and grandson Adam (Broderick). Vito has gone legit, but college-educated Adam remains loyal to his grandfather. Reluctantly, Vito joins his father and son on a big-time heist involving millions of dollars' worth of test-tube specimens.
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Family Business is a 1989 film directed by SidneyLumet with a screenplay by Vincent Patrick, based on his novel. It stars SeanConnery, DustinHoffman and Matthew Broderick.MatthewBroderick. [=Jessie McMullen(Connery)=], is the Irish American patriarch of a family of career criminals, including his half Sicilian son Vito (Hoffman) and grandson Adam (Broderick). Vito has gone legit, but college-educated Adam remains loyal to his grandfather. Reluctantly, Vito joins his father and son on a big-time heist involving millions of dollars' worth of test-tube specimens.
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Family Business is a 1989 film directed by SidneyLumet with a screenplay by Vincent Patrick, based on his novel. It stars SeanConnery, DustinHoffman and Matthew Broderick. [=Jessie McMullen(Connery)=], is the Irish American patriarch of a family of career criminals, including his half Sicilian son Vito (Hoffman) and grandson Adam (Broderick). Vito has gone legit, but college-educated Adam remains loyal to his grandfather. Reluctantly, Vito joins his father and son on a big-time heist involving millions of dollars' worth of test-tube specimens.specimens.
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* ThreeSuccessfulGenerations: There's Jessie, who is proud of his criminal past and lifestyle, his son Vito, who now runs a thriving wholesale Twelfth Avenue meat packing warehouse and has left his criminal past behind him, and his grandson Adam, who is in college with a scientific scholarship and seemingly has a bright future ahead of him.
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* ThreeSuccessfulGenerations: There's Jessie, who is proud of his criminal past and lifestyle, his son Vito, who now runs a thriving wholesale Twelfth Avenue meat packing warehouse and has left his criminal past behind him, and his grandson Adam, who is in college with a scientific scholarship and seemingly has a bright future ahead of him.
