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18	''The Family Plan'' is a 2023 action comedy film directed by Simon Cellan Jones and written by David Coggeshall. It stars Creator/MarkWahlberg, Creator/MichelleMonaghan, Zoe Colletti, Van Crosby, Creator/SaidTaghmaoui, Creator/MaggieQ, Miles Doleac, Joyner Lucas, and Creator/CiaranHinds.
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20	Wahlberg plays Dan Morgan, a covert assassin who has long since traded his guns for the life of an ordinary family man. When his past starts to re-emerge, however, he must take his family on the run, under the guise of a family road trip, in order to protect them from a new crop of deadly killers. The film premiered on Creator/AppleTVPlus on December 15, 2023.
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22	'''Previews:''' [[https://youtu.be/ns8weNznn1Y?si=Z1JUQNKR-17XhHSt Trailer]]
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24	!!''The Family Plan'' includes examples of the following:
25	* AbandonedArea: The Poseidon Casino where the killers have a base is a former hotel that is scheduled to be torn down.
26	* ActionDad: As shown off in the trailer, Dan is a father and former assassin who fights enemies while protecting his family.
27	* ActionMom: Jess manages to fight by using a gun and some basic martial arts while fighting [[spoiler:Gwen]], despite being outmatched, before killing her by utilizing her athletic training.
28	* AffectionateNickname: Dan calls Nina "Beans", which she initially doesn't appreciate, but as the film goes on, she doesn't complain when he says it.
29	* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: In the trailer, the Morgan teens repeatedly roll their eyes at their parents' antics, such as when they sing along to "Ice, Ice Baby".
30	* ArchnemesisDad: [[spoiler:The BigBad is Liam [=McCaffrey=], Dan/Sean's father who targets him for leaving the assassin life behind.]]
31	* AssholeVictim: Nina's cheating boyfriend Trevor suffers a nerve attack at her hands. And to add insult to injury, the girl who he was sleeping with approves of it.
32	* BadassInDistress: Dan is a trained, very skilled assassin who gets held captive by his former employers near the end of the film. [[spoiler:His family have to help him escape.]]
33	* BigBad: [=McCaffrey=], the leader of the gang of killers pursuing Dan and his family.
34	* BondOneLiner: After she fails with her pole vault, Jess is mocked by [[spoiler: Gwen]] on "not a decathlete." Jess [[spoiler:then hurls the broken pole to perfectly impale Gwen and smirks "there's nine other events, bitch."]]
35	* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Nina is a sullen and resentful teenager who frequently clashes with her family while also [[SoapboxSadie also lecturing them on social justice issues]] at first. However, over time she gets over this and grows much closer to them.
36	* BrickJoke: After Jess first witnesses Dan kill a henchman, she vomits, to which he says "Everybody barfs their first time." Later, after Kyle witnesses another mook's death, he also vomits, and Jess repeats the same phrase to him.
37	* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:Sean turned on [=McCaffrey=] when he discovered that the team was being sold to the highest bidder.]]
38	* TheCameo: LetsPlay/{{Valkyrae}} makes an appearance during a game competition that Kyle participates in.
39	* CareerEndingInjury: Jess was a decathlete who suffered a torn ACL, ending her dreams of competing in the Olympics.
40	* CarFu: Dan takes out a trio of motorcycle-driving {{Mooks}} by nudging their cycles with his minivan and causing them to hit other cars.
41	* CastingGag: Kyle was played by Van Crosby, who at one point gets a new ID with the first name Van. He complains it's what you call a vehicle, not a person.
42	* ChekhovsGun: When Jess [[spoiler:is brought to the elevator after saying goodbye to Dan, she forgets the diaper bag. A couple scenes later, Dan uses the bag as the holder for a bomb.]]
43	* DarkActionGirl: [[spoiler:Gwen]] turns out to be a trained assassin like Dan, his former colleague and girlfriend. Another of the assassins whom Dan kills is also a young black woman.
44	* DesignatedGirlFight: Jess and [[spoiler:Gwen]] fight near the end. Though the former gets beaten handily at first as the latter is a trained assassin, she still turns the tables and wins in the end.
45	* DisneyVillainDeath: During the final shootout, Dan throws a couple of {{Mooks}} [[RailingKill over railings]] and through roofs. Subverted with [[spoiler:Gwen when Nina shoves a cart at her which plummets over the edge of the hotel but she dodges and even though she winds up off the roof, she is easily able to get right back up.]]
46	* EpicFail: Jess attempts to do a pole vault near the end in her fight with [[spoiler:Gwen. The pole (a large wooden one) breaks and she slams into a wall.]]
47	* EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench: Jess is quite turned on when Dan speaks to her in French, basically saying the trope name afterward. He says it's due to French being melodic.
48	* EvilCannotComprehendGood: [[spoiler: [=McCaffrey=] and Gwen]] honestly think Dan will give up this "boring" life and come back to the family with [[spoiler: Gwen truly believing if Jess is gone, Dan will come back to her, ignoring how he loves his family more]].
49	* ExactWords: Done by Sean when he describes [=McCaffrey=] as a father figure and how he had to turn on "the only family I've ever known." He just left out the tiny detail that [[spoiler: [=McCaffrey=] ''is'' his father]].
50	* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Coogan]] meets this fate after Dan throws a concealed knife into his eye when he is threatening Jess at gunpoint.
51	* {{Hypocrite}}: Dan's son Kyle angrily calls him a hypocrite for trying to stop him play violent video games, because it turns out that Dan is a trained ''assassin'' who's killed people.
52	* IHaveYourWife: [=McCaffrey=] uses threats to Dan's family when he's coercing him into working as an assassin once again.
53	* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:After the aforementioned failed attempt at pole-vaulting, Jess uses the splintered end of the pole to impale Gwen through the chest.]]
54	* ImprovisedWeapon: Dan takes out a {{Mook}} with [[EdibleAmmunition a baby bottle full of milk]], which he sprays into the biker's helmet blinding him.
55	* LadyInRed: Jess wears an eye-catching red dress during the night out on the town in Vegas.
56	* OhCrap: Jess when she realizes [[spoiler: Gwen has been setting her up to get to Dan and she just led herself and the kids into a trap.]]
57	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The DroneDeployer henchman is only referred to in subtitles as Tracker.
58	* ParentalAbandonment: Dan mentions his mother died when he was four years old, while his father [[spoiler:didn't come back into his life until he was old enough to kill.]]
59	* PracticallyDifferentGenerations: Nina and Kyle are at least 16 years older than their infant brother Max.
60	* PrecisionFStrike: Twice. Jess complains about having "fucking eyeball" on her, and Nina later says "What the fuck?" upon seeing her dad brandish a gun.
61	* RedHerring: The German man who Dan accosts and is merely carrying a briefcase full of heirloom corn.
62	* RetiredBadass: In the trailer, Dan admits to his family that he used to be an assassin before getting out of the game. The action sequences surrounding this moment show that he hasn't lost his touch, however.
63	* RoadTripPlot: The trailer shows Dan loading his family into a car for a 33-hour drive to Las Vegas, with a number of contract killers to deal with along the way.
64	* SceneryPorn: While the family are on the road in Colorado, we see some great shots of the Rocky Mountains briefly.
65	* ShoutOut: When Dan stuns [[spoiler:Gwen]], Kyle says he used a [[Franchise/StarTrek Vulcan nerve pinch]].
66	* SleepingDummy: When Nina and Kyle sneak out of the hotel room to go have fun, they use long pillows to give the impression they're asleep; since Dan and Jess are distracted by the {{Mooks}} in the room, the ruse goes unnoticed for quite some time.
67	* SoapboxSadie: Nina is initially very preaching on social justice, often lecturing her family about them. It turns out to be the influence of her long-distance boyfriend, and once she learns he's cheating, Nina drops this, relieving them as they'd found it pretty annoying.
68	* StarterVillainStays: Neck Tattoo, the assassin who attacks Dan in the supermarket, continues to trail the family for the rest of the journey.
69	* TrackingDevice: At first the villains tail Dan with a tracker they put on his minivan. He discovers this and puts it on another guy's car to throw them off.
70	* UndignifiedDeath: [[spoiler:Spiros, the henchman taking Jess and the kids to the airport, meets his end after Jess shoves one of Max's dirty diapers in his face before pushing him over a railing and down several stories.]]
71	* VillainsOutShopping: The tracker henchman mentions he is a fan of Kyle under his gaming alias Kyllboi.
72	* ViolenceIsDisturbing: Jess is shocked and vomits on the floor after she sees Dan kill a man defending her. Kyle later does the same thing when Dan kills in their defense once again.
73	* VivaLasVegas: In the trailer, Dan takes his family to Vegas in order to pick up documents for their new identities.
74	* VomitDiscretionShot: Jess and Kyle both vomit offscreen right after [[ViolenceIsDisturbing seeing Dan kill someone]].
75	* WomanScorned: Nina discovers that her boyfriend Trevor is cheating on her. Dan teaches her how to do a nerve pinch which she inflicts on Trevor.
76	* WouldHurtAChild: In the trailer, the first assassin who goes after Dan attacks him with no regard for the baby on his chest.

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