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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Family Business is a 1989 caper film directed by Sidney Lumet, with a screenplay by Vincent Patrick based on his novel. It stars Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman and Matthew Broderick.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 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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Book Ends: 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 Jesse's ashes) blowing away in the wind, and the camera returns to the tracking shot. | |
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Air-Vent Passageway: 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: | |
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Berserk Button: 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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