FAMILY BUSINESS tells the story of the McMullen clan, a New York family consisting of Jessie (Sean Connery), a 65-year-old thief with a vibrant personality and devious ideas; his son Vito (Dustin Hoffman), a onetime crook who now runs a meat-packing business; and Vito's son Adam (Matthew
Broderick), a Westinghouse scholar with a bright future. Adam and his grandfather approach Vito with a very lucrative plan to steal test tubes full of experimental gene-splicing plasmas that will revolutionize science. Vito wants his son to live free of crime, but he reluctantly agrees to
participate. They prepare carefully for the job, but in the course of retrieving some forgotte...
Released:
1989
Rated:
R
Length:
114 mins