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    A Family Thing 1996 POSTER

    A Family Thing

    1996

    English

    7.1

    7

    73%

    72%

    Action

    arkansas

    biracial

    birth

    Comedy

    Drama

    letter

    matriarchy

    Richard Pearce Richard Pearce Director Mary Jackson Mary Jackson as Carrie Robert Duvall Robert Duvall as Earl Pilcher Jr. Sylvester Stallone Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa Michael Beach Michael Beach as Virgil
    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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