A Family Thing
1996
With family, everything is relative.
- Richard Pearce
- 1h 49m
- March 29, 1996 · United States of America
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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- March 29, 1996
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Cast
- Robert Duvall,James Earl Jones,Michael Beach,Irma P. Hall,Grace Zabriskie,Regina Taylor,David Keith,Xander Berkeley,Jacqueline Williams,Mary Jacksonand 32 more
- Director
- Richard Pearce
- Cinematography
- Fred Murphy
- Music
- Charles Gross
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- $10,125,417
- IMDb
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