“American Bred” (** out of four) was a stale underworld melodrama set in Detroit in which one crime-syndicate family (Michael Lerner, Eva Tamargo, Andy Martin, Jesse Staccato) becomes unraveled by greed, jealousy, lust, and betrayal and they realize they have to set aside their differences and band together if they want to survive. Sleek cinematography and lots of violent action do their best to enliven tired and familiar storyline. This is the kind of movie Martin Scorcese and Brian De Palma could easily have made in their sleep.