A Family Thing PG-13
With family, everything is relative.
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DVD-R Details
- Aspect Ratio - 16:9
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 49 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: October 14, 2014
- Originally Released: 1996
- Label: MGM
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Robert Duvall & James Earl Jones | |
Performer: | Irma P. Hall, Michael Beach, Regina Taylor, David Keith & Grace Zabriskie | |
Directed by | Richard Pearce | |
Edited by | Mark Warner | |
Screenwriting by | Billy Bob Thornton & Tom Epperson | |
Composition by | Charles Gross | |
Cinematography by | Fred Murphy | |
Produced by | Todd Black, Robert Duvall & Randa Haines | |
Executive Production by | Michael Hausman |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/5 --
A just-OK teaming of two major talents
Kalamazoo Gazette
...It's a superior entertainment, warm-hearted and touching, and with some nice shadings in the performances...
Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 4/5 --
Underrated family drama; Duvall and Jones are terrific
Atlantic City Weekly
...Engaging and affecting....Duvall is solid as ever...
Variety
Rating: 3/4 --
It's likely to be overrated by some and underrated by others, and both contingents will be wrong. One can't, however, overrate the performances, with auntie ruling the roost in more ways than one.
USA Today
...Earnest....A charming thing.
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 3/4 --
A poignant and beautifully life affirming film.
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Description by OLDIES.com:
Robert Duvall is Earl Pilcher, Jr., an Arkansas man who is about to discover the surprise of his life: the family he never knew he had. When he learns that he has an African-American half-brother living in Chicago, Earl heads north on a journey that will take him closer to home than he ever could have imagined. It won't be easy, though, since his brother (James Earl Jones) wants nothing to do with him. But with the help of their remarkable Aunt T (Irma P. Hall) and her simple wisdom, the men work through their long-held grudges and prejudices, gaining a greater understanding of each other and themselves.
Product Description:
When a white Arkansas mechanic learns his mother was a black woman, and that he has a black half-brother, he travels to Chicago to discover more about his true family. At first taken aback by the news, the man and his newly-discovered sibling slowly open up to each other with the help of their wise, blind aunt. The script was co-written by Billy Bob Thornton, prior to his success with SLING BLADE.
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- UPC: 883904303961
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