I was excited when I saw the coming attractions for "The Family". Being a fan of Robert De Niro and Tommy Lee Jones was enough for me to imagine an enjoyable experience in store ....instead....it was a long hard grind watching a gangster and his family from Brooklyn relocated (under a witness protection program) to a small town in Normandy trying to lead a normal life.
Michelle Pfeiffer plays her role well as wife and mother. De Niro is a snitch and the mob is out to find him. He finds an old typewriter in the house that they will now live in and decides to be a writer. He has a desire to write about his life as a mobster but is warned against the dangers of this.
The family looks like it is drifting apart but when their whereabouts become known, due to unusual circumstances the mob finds them. There's lots of shooting and the family ends up killing the bad guys. After that the family seems to bond again and they are seen riding into the sunset in their car (with Tommy Lee Jones in charge) with new identities. De Niro is miffed because he will have to rewrite his story again with new names.
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