A Family Thing - Reluctant Brothers

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Movie
German title A Family Thing - Reluctant Brothers
Original title A family thing
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1996
length 105 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Richard Pearce
script Billy Bob Thornton ,
Tom Epperson
production Todd Black ,
Robert Duvall ,
Randa Haines ,
Michael Hausman
music Charles Gross
camera Fred Murphy
cut Mark Warner
occupation

A Family Thing - brothers against their will (Alternative title: Brothers in spite of himself ; Original title: A Family Thing ) is an American melodrama by director Richard Pearce from the year 1996 .

action

Earl Pilcher Junior, a white man, runs a gas station and a car rental company in Arkansas . He is strongly attached to his mother who is dying.

The late Pilchers mother leaves her son a letter revealing that she is not his biological mother. The man's real mother is the African American Willa Mae, a friend of the adoptive mother who was raped by her husband Earl Pilcher Senior. The woman died shortly after the birth. Earl has an older brother in Chicago , the African American Ray Murdock, whom he should visit and adopt as a brother .

Earl Pilcher goes to Chicago, where he meets Murdock. Ray is a veteran cop who currently works for the city government. The encounter shocked Pilcher first; Murdock wants nothing to do with his brother. Earl wants to go home, but he's robbed and his car is stolen. Murdock takes him in and first introduces him to his son as an acquaintance from the Korean War . The blind aunt T. immediately recognizes that it is the second son of her deceased sister.

Later the brothers get closer. Ray says he hated Earl's father all his life. Earl settles the dispute between Ray and his son. Aunt T. tells Ray and Earl the exact story of Earl's birth and gives Earl a photo of her sister.

Earl brings Ray to Arkansas, where both brothers visit their mother's grave. Then Earl Ray wants to introduce his family and thinks out loud how they would react.

Reviews

Roger Ebert criticized in the Chicago Sun-Times of March 29, 1996 that the film could have dealt with the issue in more depth. He mainly focuses on entertainment. However, the film is also “warm-hearted” and “touching”, the depictions have nuances. Ebert particularly praised the portrayal of Irma P. Hall, who embodied "moral authority".

Awards

The film won the American Cinema Foundation's E Pluribus Unum Award in 1997 . Irma P. Hall won the 1997 Chicago Film Critics Association Award and the Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award .

background

The film was in Chicago , in Memphis ( Tennessee ) and Shelby County turned (Tennessee). He played about 10.1 million in the cinemas of the United States dollar one.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Review by Roger Ebert (English).
  2. ^ Filming locations for A Family Thing. (English).
  3. ^ Box office - business for A Family Thing. (English).