Family Business (film)



Family Business is a 1989 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 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.