Taglines: Some families can survive anything. Even each other.
Wealth can’t spare three male generations of the dysfunctional Jewish New York Gromberg family grief or grim reality. However successful in life, Alex never felt pleasing pride or proper parental support from sprightly patriarch Mitchell, who sarcastically imposes his own values and priorities on everyone and everything. Alex starts despairing that his modern permissiveness may ruin his own bright firstborn, college-boy Asher, unlike adoring kid-brother Eli. A dorm-drug-bust pushes things to the limit — or beyond?
It Runs in the Family is a comedy-drama movie directed by Fred Schepisi and starring three generations of the Douglas family: Kirk Douglas, his son Michael Douglas, and Michael’s son Cameron Douglas, who play three generations of a family. Diana Douglas (née Dill), real-life mother to Michael Douglas and ex-wife of Kirk, plays Kirk’s character’s wife.
It Runs in the Family (2003)
Directed by: Fred Schepisi
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas, Bernadette Peters, Sarita Choudhury, Rory Culkin, Cameron Douglas, Diana Douglas, Colman Domingo, Michelle Monaghan
Screenplay by: Jesse Wigutow
Cinematography by: Ian Baker
Production Design by: Patrizia von Brandenstein
Art Direction by: George Allison
Costume Design by: Ellen Mirojnick
Set Decoration by: Diane Lederman
Music by: Paul Grabowsky
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for drug content, sexual material and language.
Distributed by: Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Release Date: April 25, 2003
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