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With family, everything is relative. - A Family Thing
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Title: A Family Thing

Release Date: 29 Mar 1996

Runtime: 1h 49m

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Director: United Artists, Butcher's Run Films, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Production Companies: United Artists, Butcher's Run Films, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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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Ratings

Average Vote: 6.5 (63 votes)

Cast

  • Earl Pilcher Jr.: Robert Duvall
  • Ray Murdock: James Earl Jones
  • Virgil: Michael Beach
  • Aunt T.: Irma P. Hall
  • Ruby: Grace Zabriskie
  • Ann: Regina Taylor
  • Sonny: David Keith
  • Woman at Hospital: Jacqueline Williams
  • Carrie: Mary Jackson
  • Karen: Paula Marshall
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