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A Family Thing
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6.0
With family, everything is relative.
1996
1h49m
Comedy
Drama
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.
Status: Released
Revenue: $10,125,417.00
Release date: March 29, 1996
Countries of origin: United States of America,
- United Artists
- Butcher's Run Films
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Top Cast
Robert Duvall
as Earl Pilcher Jr...
James Earl Jones
as Ray Murdock
Michael Beach
as Virgil
Irma P. Hall
as Aunt T.
Grace Zabriskie
as Ruby
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