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List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $12.99 You Save: $1.99 Features • Anamorphic • Closed-captioned • Color • DVD-Video • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 29 March, 1996 DVD Release : 08 May, 2001 |
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A Family Thing description This film features the wonderfully understated duet of Robert Duvall and James Earl Jones, two old pros who know just how to stay out of each other's way while offering superb support. Duvall plays Earl Pilcher, an aging Southerner whose mother dies, leaving him a letter with a startling secret: in fact, she was not his mother, though she raised him--but his father is really his father. His real mother was a black servant whom his father forced himself upon, and she died in childbirth. Even more shocking, he has a black brother in Chicago, Ray (Jones). Stunned to his soul, Earl heads for Chicago, where he finds that Ray not only knows his secret but wants nothing to do with him. Slowly, however, in this marvelously drawn script by Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Epperson, the two brothers find common ground. The theme--about discovering a family bond where none existed before--works better than the story-telling, which is a shade predictable. Watch for a great supporting performance by actress Irma Hall, who plays the aunt of both men. --Marshall Fine |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | One of the best movies Ive seen in a very long time |
| I havent watched movies in years because they are too violent and/or sexually inappropriate.. but I loved this movie. Its got meat in it and its believeable. Robert and James shine in this movie and after watching it, I couldnt help but wonder if this had actually ever happened to anyone.. (I'm sure it has). In either case, your going to love this movie... There is one nude scene but you dont see anything important. Frankly I think they could of done without that scene but in either case, its not too bad. | |
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