Watch A Family Thing (1996) Free Online

Release Date: 1996

Cast: Irma P. Hall, Paula Marshall, David Keith, Robert Duvall, Mary Jackson, Don James, James Earl Jones, Grace Zabriskie, Michael Beach, Regina Taylor

Categories: Movies, Drama Film, Family Drama

A Family Thing is a 1996 film starring Robert Duvall, James Earl Jones and Irma P. Hall. It was written by Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Epperson and directed by Richard Pearce. The film is a drama about a Scotch-Irish American Southerner (Duvall) named Earl Pilcher, whose late mother makes a shocking revelation in a letter left for him to read, after her death. She reveals that Earl's biological mother was an African American maid named Willa Mae, who was raped by Earl's (white) father and died while giving birth to Earl. His adoptive mother's dying wish is that he go to Chicago to meet his... MORE

A Family Thing is a 1996 film starring Robert Duvall, James Earl Jones and Irma P. Hall. It was written by Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Epperson and directed by Richard Pearce. The film is a drama about a Scotch-Irish American Southerner (Duvall) named Earl Pilcher, whose late mother makes a shocking revelation in a letter left for him to read, after her death. She reveals that Earl's biological mother was an African American maid named Willa Mae, who was raped by Earl's (white) father and died while giving birth to Earl. His adoptive mother's dying wish is that he go to Chicago to meet his half-brother, Ray Murdoch (Jones). Ray blames Earl's father for his own mother's death and does not want to speak to Earl, whose very presence reminds Ray of the past. But his loving Aunt T. (Hall) welcomes Earl and insists the family accept him. Earl initially takes it badly, and, as a result, he packs up his clothes and takes off for the big city. He meets Ray at city hall (where he is a police officer) and Ray, although he really wants nothing to do with Earl, agrees to meet him for lunch at a diner. There Ray reveals that he knew he had a half white brother all along and hates Earl's father LESS