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Cast: Crystal Laws Green, David Keith, David Spencer, Don James, Eddie Bo Smith Jr, Ernie Adams, Grace Zabriskie, Irma P Hall, Jacqueline Williams, James Earl Jones, James N Harrell, Mary Jackson, Meg Thalken, Michael Beach, Patrice Pitman Quinn, Paula Marshall
Category: English Movies
Release: 29 March 1996
Genres: Comedy, Drama
IMDB: IMDB
Added: June 20, 2011
Description:
A Family Thing: 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.