{"id":118,"date":"2006-08-10T13:24:05","date_gmt":"2006-08-10T18:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/118-family-business-in-film"},"modified":"2013-01-19T17:23:48","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T22:23:48","slug":"family-business-in-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/118-family-business-in-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Business in Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Family Business\" alt=\"Family Business\" src=\"http:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/familybusiness.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/>There&#8217;s no business like show business, and no business quite like a family business. Even Hollywood has paid homage to this unique blend of business and pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>Check out these movies featuring family businesses. What&#8217;s your favorite? What would you add to the list?<\/p>\n<p>Body Waves, starring Bill Calvert and Leah Lail: A teenager sets out to break away from the family business and do something on his own, and in doing so, invents a popular sex cream. 1992.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nTommy Boy, with Chris Farley, David Spade, and Brian Dennehy: Tommy Callahan III sets out to salvage the family&#8217;s auto parts business after his father dies, hoping to save it from falling into the hands of his young stepmother and stepbrother. 1995.<\/p>\n<p>Billy Madison features Adam Sandler as a man who proves he can run the family business by vowing to finish his education, from elementary school through high school. 1995.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas:\u00a0 A wildly popular TV series about the Ewing family&#8217;s oil business, with some shady and not-so-shady characters, stars Larry Hagman, Jim Davis, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, and Victoria Principal. 1978-1991<\/p>\n<p>Dynasty, starring John Forsythe, Linda Evans, and Joan Collins: From the Ewings to the Carringtons, this nighttime TV soap dishes up another family oil business in all of its glitz and conflicts. 1981-1989.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Australia, featuring Jeremy Irons and Fanny Ardant in this drama about a man who returns home to help out his family&#8217;s wool business after World War II. 1989.<\/p>\n<p>Caf\u00c3\u00a9 And Tobacco, starring Enrique Murciano as a young medical school graduate trying to help keep the family business and ties together. 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Cimarron, with Glenn Ford and Anne Baxter in the story of a frontier family&#8217;s newspaper business and its CEO, who refuses to swindle Native Americans out of their land and oil. 1961.<\/p>\n<p>Country, a TV movie featuring Frederick Alexander and Jill Bennett: The story of the Carlions, who run a brewing dynasty and must decide which one will run the family business upon the death of their patriarch. 1981.<\/p>\n<p>The Creator&#8217;s Game, with Dakota House: An Iroquois Native American pursues his dream of being a football coach while trying to save his father and sister&#8217;s store. 1999.<\/p>\n<p>La Florida, starring Remy Gerard and Pauline Lapointe: A Quebec family moves to Florida to open a motel, but encounters unscrupulous businessmen out to eliminate their competition. 1993.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph&#8217;s Gift, featuring Freddy Rodriguez as Joseph in the updated Bible story of a lost son who finds his way back home to his family&#8217;s successful garment business. 1998.<\/p>\n<p>Hot Cargo, with William Gargan and Jean Rogers: Two war veterans help save a family&#8217;s trucking business from ruthless rivals. 1946.<\/p>\n<p>A Place In The Sun, with Montgomery Clift as a blue-collar man who enters a friend&#8217;s family business and works his way up, finding love on both sides of the track (Shelley Winters and Elizabeth Taylor). 1951.<\/p>\n<p>The Godfather, starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, and James Caan in the ultimate &#8220;family business&#8221; film: The Corlione&#8217;s business is organized crime, but after bloodshed and betrayal, can son Michael make it legitimate?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no business like show business, and no business quite like a family business. Even Hollywood has paid homage to this unique blend of business and pleasure. Check out these movies featuring family businesses. What&#8217;s your favorite? What would you add to the list? 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