DIRECTOR Sidney Lumet's films have received more than 40 Academy Award nominations since 1957.
He made Family Business (Pearl, 9.30pm) in 1989 and tried to intellectualise it by saying: ''I am intrigued by family relationship, by dynamics between fathers and sons. The whole familial structure is endlessly fascinating.'' Family Business is not a particularly intelligent film, but it is nevertheless an entertaining one. Lumet should not be ashamed of having made entertainment.
It is a rites of passage story of three genrations of fathers and sons who have made a vocation out of robbing banks because, as someone once said, that's where the money is.
Brainy Matthew Broderick is estranged from his father (Dustin Hoffman) so approaches grandfather Sean Connery with an idea for a can't miss robbery.
The performances, as they should be from three such luminaries, are memorable. What lets Family Business down is that it is difficult to believe Broderick, Hoffman and Connery could come from the same family.
THE abysmal Sunset (World, 9.30pm) is another turkey for Bruce Willis' collection. He teams up with James Garner (The Rockford Files) for this whodunnit set in 1920s Hollywood. Willis plays real cowboy star Tom Mix, but again registers zero on the personality scale. Garner tries desperately to save it, but gives up before the end.
