Marvin & Tige
Sometimes it takes a friend to make the pieces fit
19851h 44mNo ratings yet
- Drama
Overview
Marvin, a heavy-drinking widower meets Tige, an 11-year-old orphan. With nowhere else to go, Tige moves in with Marvin and they develop a close friendship. Marvin wants to adopt Tige but knows that he is too poor to give him a good home. Then he discovers who Tige's father is a rich suburbanite who doesn't even know Tige exists. Should Marvin, and can he, give up the boy he loves, and who loves him, in favor of a stranger with the right genes and bank balance?
Keywords
- racism
- alcoholism
- suicide
- class
- homelessness
- adoption
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- March 8, 1985
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Production
- Marvin Film Partners
- Cast
- Je Nie Fleming,Lou Walker,Fay Hauser,Frank Hart,John Cassavetes,Jerry Penson,Charles Darden,Tami Dash,Denise Nicholas,Rob Harkeand 5 more
- Director
- Eric Weston
- Producer
- Frank Merke,Wanda Dell
- Cinematography
- Brian West
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0085908