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A Family Thing (1996)

A Family Thing (1996)

Drama Comedy

With family, everything is relative.

Release Date: 1996, March 29
Directors: Richard Pearce
Countries: United States of America
Production: United Artists, United Artists, Butcher's Run Films, Butcher's Run Films, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Cast: Robert Duvall, James Earl Jones, Xander Berkeley, Tommy Bush, Michael Beach, Tony Brown, Grace Zabriskie, Don James, Eddie Bo Smith Jr., Greg Hollimon, Irma P. Hall, Reggie Hayes

Overview:

Earl Pilcher Jr. runs an equipment rental outfit in Arkansas, lives with his wife and kids and parents, and rarely takes off his gimme cap. His mother dies, leaving a letter explaining he's not her natural son, but the son of a Black woman who died in childbirth; plus, he has a half brother Ray, in Chicago, she wants him to visit. Earl makes the trip, initially receiving a cold welcome from Ray and Ray's son, Virgil. His birth mother's sister, Aunt T., an aged and blind matriarch, takes Earl in tow and insists that the family open up to him.

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