Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Easy to follow
- Violence
- Brutal
- sardonic
- chaotic
- irreverent
- casual movie night
- crime comedy double feature
What critics said
Critics found energetic performances and occasional comic spark undermined by an overly familiar setup, abrupt tonal shifts, uneven humor, and an incoherent back story.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
The Manzoni family attempts witness protection in a sleepy French town while continuing to solve conflicts through mob habits.
Fred, Maggie, Belle, and Warren are presented as likable family characters whose responses remain coercive and violently criminal.
The witness protection arrangement requires the family to become the Blakes, but their old identities and behaviors repeatedly resurface.
An Italian American mafia family disrupts a quiet French community through school, neighborhood, and family conflicts.
Films like The Family, and why
Analyze This
shares black comedy, mafia violence, culture clash, and a criminal family struggling with a new environment
The Sopranos
shares darkly comic gangster conventions, violent family dynamics, and a self-aware crime-film tone
Keeping Mum
shares fish-out-of-water crime comedy, family loyalty, and cartoonish action violence
Movie Details
- Director
- Luc Besson
- Release Date
- 2013-09-13
- Runtime
- 111 min
- Rating
- 6.4 / 10 (3179)
Cast
- Robert De Niro
- Michelle Pfeiffer
- Tommy Lee Jones
- Dianna Agron
- John D'Leo
- Jon Freda
- David Belle
- Domenick Lombardozzi
- Jimmy Palumbo
- Ted Arcidi
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Netflix Standard with Ads, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is The Family about?
- A witness-protected mafia family turns a quiet French town into an improvised battleground when ordinary life proves incompatible with their criminal instincts.
- What is The Family like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of The Family as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as easy to follow.
- Is The Family violent?
- Yes. Ember rates the violence in The Family as brutal.
- What did critics think of The Family?
- Critics found energetic performances and occasional comic spark undermined by an overly familiar setup, abrupt tonal shifts, uneven humor, and an incoherent back story.
- Which films are like The Family?
- Films with a similar feel include Analyze This, The Sopranos, and Keeping Mum.
- How long is The Family?
- The Family runs 111 minutes.
- Where can I watch The Family?
- In United States, The Family streams on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Netflix Standard with Ads, Amazon Prime Video with Ads.
