A Family Thing (1996)

Directed by

Richard Pearce

Genre

drama film, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 76 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A white man in Arkansas learns on his mother's deathbed that he was adopted and his biological mother was a Black maid for his family. He travels to Chicago to meet his half brother, a Black policeman, and the two struggle with their unexpected family connection.

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What happens

A Family Thing is a 1996 American Southern Gothic family comedy-drama film directed by Richard Pearce and written by Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Epperson. The film features Robert Duvall as a farm equipment rental and dealership owner in rural Arkansas who travels to Chicago, Illinois to meet his long-lost half brother, portrayed by James Earl Jones, after discovering that his biological mother was an African-American maid to his family. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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