A Family Thing

Name: A Family Thing
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1996-03-29
Duration: 1 h 49 min
Rating: 7.1
Cast: Robert Duvall, James Earl Jones, Michael Beach, Irma P. Hall, Grace Zabriskie

With family, everything is relative.

A Family Thing (1996)

Timing: 1:49 (109 min)

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Video for the film A Family Thing — A Family Thing Trailer 1996

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Release date

1996-03-29

Country

United States

Production

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

Genre

Comedy, Drama

Budget

Box office

$10 125 417

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Director

Richard Pearce

Actors

Robert Duvall, James Earl Jones, Michael Beach, Irma P. Hall, Grace Zabriskie, Regina Taylor, David Keith, Xander Berkeley, Jacqueline Williams, Mary Jackson
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Scenario

Billy Bob Thornton, Tom Epperson

Producer

Robert Duvall, Randa Haines, Todd Black, Michael Hausman

Camera operator

Fred Murphy

Composer

Charles Gross

Artist

Linda DeScenna

Audition

Victoria Thomas

Editing

Mark Warner
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Short description

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.