Friday, January 26, 2007

Film: A Family Thing (1996)

DVD: Enhanced 16x9
A Family Thing

"I guess everyone is entitled to make a complete and utter fool of himself every now and then."

Review: Robert Duvall is excellent in this movie as a white southern man who discovers in his mother's will that she is not his real mother, but a black maid his father slept with was his mother and she died in child birth. The movie is a great character study as he travels to Chicago to meet his half-brother who is played by James Earl Jones.

"I used to play a little ball. I was small, but I made up for it by being slow."

3 1/2 out of 4 Stars

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