The Family

    The Family
    2013

    Synopsis

    The Manzoni family, a notorious mafia clan, is relocated to Normandy, France under the witness protection program, where fitting in soon becomes challenging as their old habits die hard.

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    Cast

    • Robert De NiroFred Blake / Giovanni Manzoni
    • Michelle PfeifferMaggie Blake
    • Tommy Lee JonesRobert Stansfield
    • Dianna AgronBelle Blake
    • John D'LeoWarren Blake
    • Jon FredaRocco
    • David BelleMezzo
    • Domenick LombardozziCaputo
    • Jimmy PalumboDi Cicco
    • Ted ArcidiTommy

    Recommendations

    • 75

      Miami Herald

      The Family is the rare breed of pitch-black comedy that effectively uses violence for laughs or gasps, depending on the situation.
    • 60

      Village Voice

      You can be chuckling one minute then cowering and cringing the next, which tinges the humor with apprehension and taints the brutality with absurdity. That isn't to say that the combo doesn't work at all.
    • 60

      The New York Times

      The movie has holes galore. It has abrupt tonal shifts, an incoherent back story and abandoned subplots. It doesn’t even try for basic credibility. But buoyed by hot performances, it sustains a zapping electrical energy.
    • 50

      McClatchy-Tribune News Service

      Besson aims his movie at anyone who’s ever held a grudge at an ill-mannered French waiter or clerk (haughty, and by the way, they’d NEVER condescend to speak to you in English). If that includes you, The Family has serves up a little wish-fulfillment payback, with a baseball bat.
    • 50

      USA Today

      The Family is a fish-out-of-water/buddy comedy/Mob flick. But most of all, it's a missed opportunity.
    • 50

      Rolling Stone

      Robert De Niro – wait for it – in the role of a mobster. Now there's an original idea.
    • 40

      The Dissolve

      The film is curiously joyless and inert.
    • 25

      The Playlist

      The Family is ultimately a headache, nearly two hours of baseball bat beatings and dull witticisms, with zero inventiveness or energy.

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