"Finnegan's Foursome"
Edward Burns, Brian Darcy James and Ian McElhinney celebrate in “Finnegan’s Foursome,” from Republic Pictures

"Finnegan's Foursome"

From Edward Burns comes a golf comedy about a family with different strokes that goes down easy, maybe too easy.

By Peter Travers

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★★½ (2½ out of 4)

Come hang with Edward Burns and his buds. That seems to be the message behind
“Finnegan’s Foursome,” a sweetly insubstantial golf movie that takes it nice and easy, sometimes to its own detriment. If you’re like me and have shown a soft spot for Burns since his acclaimed 1995 debut with “The Brothers McMullen,” you’ll know what to expect when Burns eases into family mode, especially in dialogue that catches the teasing cadences family members use to dodge emotional hardballs.

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