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A Family Thing

03/29/1996

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1hr 49min

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Comedy

,Drama

With family, everything is relative.

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Robert Duvall
  • James Earl Jones
  • Michael Beach
  • Irma P. Hall
  • Grace Zabriskie

    Directors

  • Richard Pearce
  • Craig Huston
  • Aiman A. Humaideh
  • Randa Haines

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • United Artists
  • Butcher's Run Films
  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • English

Cast

Robert Duvall

Earl Pilcher Jr.

James Earl Jones

Ray Murdock

Michael Beach

Virgil

Irma P. Hall

Aunt T.

Grace Zabriskie

Ruby

Regina Taylor

Ann

David Keith

Sonny

Jacqueline Williams

Woman at Hospital

Mary Jackson

Carrie

Paula Marshall

Karen

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