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A Family Thing

6.5 109 mins Comedy   Drama   1996
United Artists   Butcher's Run Films   Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer  
Director(s): Richard Pearce

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.

Casts of A Family Thing

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

Regina Taylor

as Ann

David Keith

as Sonny

Jacqueline Williams

as Woman at Hospital

Mary Jackson

as Carrie

Paula Marshall

as Karen

Phillip Edward Van Lear

as Club Manager

Meg Thalken

as Doctor

Richard Lexsee

as Truckjacker

Xander Berkeley

as Sunburned Man

James N. Harrell

as Earl Pilcher Sr.

Ashleigh Jordan

as Danielle

Sandra Quarterman

as Young Aunt T.

Rufus Thomas

as Tommy

Reggie Hayes

as Virgil's Friend

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