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Powerful drama about an ageing man who realises that his mother kept an astonishing secret from him. Earl Pilcher, Jr (Robert Duvall) is now in his 60s and has just recovered from the sadness of losing his mother. But something she left behind is about to change his life: a letter which reveals that the woman who has recently passed away was not Earl's birth mother - his real mother was a black woman who died while g Even more surprising is the revelation that Earl has a half-brother living in Chicago and that his mother's dying wish was for the two of them to meet. Earl embarks on a personal odyssey to meet his long-lost brother, a black cop named Ray Murdock (James Earl Jones), and in the process learns a little more about himself.Product Identifiers
ProducerTodd Black, Robert Duvall, Randa Haines, Michael Hausman
EAN0883904303961
eBay Product ID (ePID)14053509960
Product Key Features
ActorRobert Duvall, Michael Beach, Grace Zabriskie, Irma P. Hall, James Earl Jones
Film/TV TitleA Family Thing
DirectorJim Nedza, David Pearce, Fred Murphy, Richard Pearce
LanguageEnglish, French
Subtitle LanguageFrench, Spanish
Run Time109 Min
Release Year1996
FormatDVD
FeaturesWidescreen, With Subtitles
GenreDrama, Comedy
StudioWillette Acquisition Corp.
TypeMovie
Additional Product Features
Unit Quantity1
ComposerJerry Goldsmith
ScreenwriterTom Epperson, Billy Bob Thornton
SoundDolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1
Original LanguageEn
EditorMark Warner
Production CompanyButcher's Run Films, United Artists, T.Black & R. Haines-Butchers Run Fil
WriterTom Epperson, Billy Bob Thornton