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  • Summary: The Cleary brothers, Sam, Leo and Douglas take dysfunctional families to a new level; Sam and Leo have grown up hating each other and neither likes their juvenile delinquent kid brother, Douglas, to whom they've only recently been introduced. The sons share the same father, a womanizing drunk, but all have different mothers. Their father died a rich man and when they're brought together by their sister Nina to learn which of them will inherit the old man's fortune, they are handed an unpleasant surprise. A requirement of the will is that the three estranged siblings go into business together. Their first job is to bring in a parole violator, who has left Leo, a bail bondsman, with a $250,000 debt. Their search will take them into the moutains of Mexico here they encouter a drug lord and uncover a kidnapping plot, mastermind by an embittered entrepeneur that will endanger them all. (The Samuel Goldwyn Films)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 1 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 11
  3. Negative: 7 out of 11
  1. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: David DeWitt
    Oct 20, 2011
    70
    The Reunion has no pretensions of originality, and maybe that's just fine. It's relaxing to watch formula roll in front of you if that formula is engaged with affection, and that's the case here, much to the credit of the writer and director, Mike Pavone.
  2. Tampa Bay Times
    Reviewed by: Steve Persall
    Oct 19, 2011
    50
    Cena handles rough stuff like a pro, and his poker-faced wisecracking isn't bad. But he probably shouldn't quit his day job.
  3. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Nick Schager
    Oct 18, 2011
    30
    The resultant smorgasbord is a misshapen mess, short on humor, tension, or chemistry among its bickering protagonists.

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  1. Tina
    8
    I think it was a pretty good movie. John Cena is a much better actor that some of the other wrestlers that have tried! Compared to others I have seen lately, it has a little of everything in it, action, humor, and a story line.… Expand
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