A Family Thing
1996
Rated PG-13
· ⭐ 6.5 · Votes: 49
“With family, everything is relative.”
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.
Genres
Comedy
Drama
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