The Family

— I’d hoped for more from “The Family”, a Luc Besson film with Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfieffer, and Tommy Lee Jones. Billed as a dark comedy/thriller about a former mob boss and his family hiding in the Witness Protection Program, it has a decent premise and decent actors, but the plot is kind of linear, the comedy a little scare, and the pace a little uneven. With these actors, it should have been more clever, but at least it was something other than the slapstick, angst-ridden, overly dirty humor of summer-release, teen comedies. It was vaguely enjoyable but also pretty forgettable.

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[2013. 111 min. Directed by Luc Besson. Starring Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dianna Agron, John D'Leo, and Tommy Lee Jones.]
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