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Synopsis: Jessie is an aging career criminal who has been in more jails, fights, schemes, and lineups than just about anyone else. His son Vito, while currently on the straight and narrow, has had a fairly shady past and is indeed no stranger to illegal activity. They both have great hope for Adam, Vito's son and Jessie's grandson, who is bright, good-looking, and without a criminal past. So when Adam approaches Jessie with a scheme for a burglary he's shocked, but not necessarily uninterested.
Genre: Crime, Drama
Director(s): Sidney Lumet
Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
 
IMDB:
5.7
Rotten Tomatoes:
38%
R
Year:
1989
110 min
522 Views


- Too?

Any deal you ever made with me,

you never saw a speck of trouble.

It's when you took off on your own, like

an a**hole with that retarded Polack...

...that you wound up doing

your 27 months in the shitter.

And he's still blaming me.

If you'd stuck with me, you'd have been

a part of that Westport Bank caper.

So sweet.

Ask him where the money is now.

Just where it ought to be.

It didn't have handles on it.

Always remember, Adam. It only

costs 100% more to go first class.

Ask him about the downside,

the couple of years you sit in the cage...

...then spend the rest

of your life hiding it.

Anybody who's embarrassed about

doing time is a goddamned snob.

You do your time nice, don't rat

anybody out, never take it in the ass...

...what is there to be

embarrassed about?

Vito, somewhere your values

got screwy.

When did you get it in your head

that it was so terrible to be a thief?

How do you get through to someone

who thinks like a Gypsy?

- Right. Standup thieves, Gypsies.

- Right.

Not a hypocritical bone in their bodies.

Hey, Margie.

- You made bail.

- Thanks to my grandson Adam here.

- And my wonderful son Vito.

- How do you do?

It's nice to know you, Adam. Hi.

Vito? Margie.

So how are the accommodations

at the tombs these days?

- Three-star? Four-star?

- I'll survive.

There was never any question

about that.

But did the other prisoners survive?

What about the poor guards?

I don't go on for 15 minutes.

Can I buy you guys a drink?

- No, we'll take a rain check.

- Oh, man talk.

- Okay, see you later.

- Okay.

- Listen, we still on for tonight?

- Yeah, sure.

It was very nice meeting you.

Jessie, are you involving

Adam in something?

- Just the safest, sweetest deal of my life.

- All right, stop right there...

And he's not involving me,

it's my idea.

- Your idea?

- My idea. That's right.

Adam, what are you talking about?

I'm talking about a lot of money, Pop.

And it's not even dangerous.

- Lf it's against the law, it's dangerous.

- No, no, this is a walk.

- And it just needs a third guy.

- Needs a third guy, huh?

Are you crazy? I spent my life

thieving with my father...

...and now I'm gonna thieve

with my son? Crazy.

Must be a full moon

I don't know about.

Tell me, what is it

with these criminal genes?

Jesus, Vito. Don't get started

with that criminal-gene crap.

Carnegie, Rockefeller. Those are

the guys with criminal genes...

...the size of f***ing grapefruits.

You never really bought

that honesty sh*t.

You've just been running scared

for 25 years.

I'm scared for him.

I'm not a baby.

Let me be scared for me.

If they catch you,

they lock you up. Listen.

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Vincent Patrick

Vincent Patrick is the author of the cult crime novels The Pope of Greenwich Village and Family Business. He adapted both novels for the screen. The Pope of Greenwich Village, directed by Stuart Rosenberg and starring Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke and Daryl Hannah, was released in 1984. Family Business, directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman and Matthew Broderick, was released in 1989. Patrick also served as a screenwriter on many movies, including Beverly Hills Cop, The Godfather Part III, and The Devil's Own. more…

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