The Sopranos: Season 5, Episode 4

All Happy Families (28 Mar. 2004)

TV Episode  -   -  Crime | Drama
8.2
Your rating:
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 -/10 X  
Ratings: 8.2/10 from 432 users  
Reviews: 1 user

Feech makes a pain of himself by trying to return to his past glory. Carmela tries to work with Anthony's teacher to rein in the out-of-control son.

Director:

Writers:

(creator),
0Check in
0Share...

User Lists

Related lists from IMDb users

a list of 627 titles created 10 months ago
 
a list of 93 images created 27 Jul 2011
 
a list of 13 titles created 9 months ago
 
a list of 1150 titles created 02 Jan 2012
 

Connect with IMDb


Share this Rating

Title: All Happy Families (28 Mar 2004)

All Happy Families (28 Mar 2004) on IMDb 8.2/10

Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below.

Take The Quiz!

Test your knowledge of The Sopranos.
« Previous Episode | 56 of  86 Episodes | Next Episode »

Videos

Photos

Learn more

People who liked this also liked... 

Oz (1997–2003)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.9/10 X  

A series chronicling the daily activities of an unusual prison facility and its criminal inhabitants.

Stars: Ernie Hudson, J.K. Simmons, Lee Tergesen
The Shield (2002–2008)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.5/10 X  

The story of an inner-city Los Angeles police precinct where some of the cops aren't above breaking the rules or working against their associates to both keep the streets safe and their ... See full summary »

Stars: Michael Chiklis, Catherine Dent, Walton Goggins
The Killing (2007–2012)
Crime | Drama | Mystery
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.9/10 X  

Police detective Sarah Lund investigates difficult cases with personal and political consequences.

Stars: Sofie Gråbøl, Morten Suurballe, Lars Mikkelsen
Las Vegas (2003–2008)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.2/10 X  

Welcome to the Montecito Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, where you can do anything you want... but Ed Deline and his crack surveillance team will be watching. Just remember, what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas...

Stars: Josh Duhamel, James Lesure, Vanessa Marcil
Crime | Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 9/10 X  

The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York is portrayed while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on his crime syndicate stretching from Lake Tahoe, Nevada to pre-revolution 1958 Cuba.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Stars: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton
Heat (1995)
Action | Crime | Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.3/10 X  

A group of professional bank robbers start to feel the heat from police when they unknowingly leave a clue at their latest heist.

Director: Michael Mann
Stars: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer
Goodfellas (1990)
Biography | Crime | Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.8/10 X  

Henry Hill and his friends work their way up through the mob hierarchy.

Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci
Carlito's Way (1993)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.9/10 X  

A Puerto-Rican ex-con, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him and lead on to a better life outside of NYC.

Director: Brian De Palma
Stars: Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller
The Godfather (1972)
Crime | Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 9.2/10 X  

The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Stars: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan
Donnie Brasco (1997)
Biography | Crime | Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.8/10 X  

An FBI undercover agent infilitrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the mafia life to the expense of his regular one.

Director: Mike Newell
Stars: Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Michael Madsen
Training Day (2001)
Action | Crime | Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.6/10 X  

On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.

Director: Antoine Fuqua
Stars: Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Scott Glenn
The Take (TV mini-series 2009)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.7/10 X  
Stars: Shaun Evans, Tom Hardy, Charlotte Riley
Edit

Cast

Episode credited cast:
...
...
...
...
...
Junior Soprano (credit only)
...
...
...
...
Meadow Soprano (as Jamie-Lynn DiScala)
...
...
Janice Soprano (credit only)
...
...
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
...
...
Edit

Storyline

Blood is shed in the power struggle between Johnny Sack and Carmine Lupertazzi Jr. when one of Carmine's loan sharks doesn't pay Johnny instead of Carmine. Feetch La Matta gets Tony's okay to take over Uncle Junior's lucrative high stakes poker game. When one of the game's regulars, Dr. Ira Fried, finds the the guests at his daughter's wedding have had their expensive foreign cars stolen, he turns to Tony for help. Tony's pretty upset when he finds out who was behind it and makes sure it doesn't happen again. AJ's grades are dropping and a visit to his school guidance counselor, Robert Wegler, doesn't give much hope for college unless his grades improve. Carmela feels she's being undermined by Tony who is always buying the boy gifts and after AJ disobeys her yet again, she lets him move in with Tony. She also gets a call from Wegler who asks her out for lunch. Tony meanwhile is still trying to woo Dr. Melfi. Written by garykmcd

Plot Summary | Add Synopsis

Genres:

Crime | Drama

Edit

Details

Country:

Language:

Release Date:

28 March 2004 (USA)  »

Company Credits

Show detailed on  »

Technical Specs

Color:

See  »
Edit

Did You Know?

Goofs

A.J. is in the principal's office. When he gets up from his seat, he is wearing tan khaki pants but when we cut to a shot of him leaving the office, he is wearing dark jeans. See more »

Quotes

[during a VIP poker game]
Alan Ginsberg: Great tax loophole, those SUVs. Told all my clients, write it off on your business.
David Lee Roth: I used to be able to write off condoms.
See more »

Connections

References The Honeymooners: The $99,000 Answer (1956) See more »

Soundtracks

"CANZONE NEPOLITANA"
by Peitro Leguani
See more »

Frequently Asked Questions

This FAQ is empty. Add the first question.

User Reviews

 
Goodbye, Feech
15 May 2008 | by (Italy) – See all my reviews

After being mentioned briefly in Season 3, Feech La Manna (Robert Loggia) was introduced in the Season Five premiere, and proved himself a worthy presence on the show. Unfortunately, his stay wasn't very long, in fact All Happy Families features Loggia's last appearance in the series. According to David Chase, his departure had to do with memory problems (the actor was past his seventies), an ironic fact given the previous episode dealt with the possibility of Uncle Junior having Alzheimer's. Nonetheless, Loggia's four-episode guest spot remains one of the highlights of the show's great history, and his exit is every bit as good as his entrance.

The need to take Loggia off the series is narratively transformed into Tony's need to get rid of Feech, whose attempts to get his old power back is causing more trouble than anything, and with Christopher's help the nuisance is dealt with rather painlessly. Meanwhile, the war that's raging between Little Carmine and Johnny Sack gets uglier with the killing of the former's loan-shark, and on the private front AJ's mediocre grades lead to Carmela having a sit-down, and perhaps something else, with the school counselor, Robert Wegler (David Strathairn).

Aside from Loggia leaving the series, the most notable achievement of this episode is Strathairn's riveting performance: best known in mainstream cinema for playing unpleasant fellas, such as Kathy Bates' abusive husband in Dolores Claiborne or, most famously, Kim Basinger's vicious pimp in the extraordinary L.A. Confidential, he joins TV's best crime drama playing a nice guy, albeit with a few characterial flaws, and gives a humane portrayal justly remembered by Empire magazine as one of the show's five best guest spots (the other four, in case you're wondering, are Robert Patrick, Jon Favreau, Ben KIngsley and the already mentioned Loggia). His story arc allows the writers to move away a little from the gangster universe, which is always refreshing, and also sheds new light on the personality of Mrs. Soprano, a quite different woman since she dumped Tony.

The title may be highly ironic (no one's really happy in the episode), but hey, at least the viewers are satisfied. And for those lamenting the disappearance of a superb recurring presence, consider this: his replacement is just as marvelous.


10 of 10 people found this review helpful.  Was this review helpful to you?

Message Boards

Recent Posts
Finn and Meadow arguing about the suitcase jds870
Most Attractive Girl Tony Slept With? CMan0928
Deserving candidates for getting beaten to a pulp. gordongeeko
Pine Barrens (Did he climb up a tree?) sharoonyounas
Why was Christopher so mean to Adriana? alexjx
Rank The Season's. wayneleeg
Discuss All Happy Families (2004) on the IMDb message boards »

Contribute to This Page