A Family Thing (1996)

Directors

Richard Pearce

Cast

Robert Duvall, James Earl Jones, Irma P. Hall, Michael Beach, David Keith

The story

Earl Pilcher, a farm equipment rental company business owner in a rural small Arkansas town, receives a shocking letter from his mother, Carrie, on her deathbed. She reveals that Earl's biological mother was actually an African-American maid named Willa Mae, raped by Earl's (white) father, who died giving birth to Earl. Carrie's dying wish is that Earl go to Chicago to meet his half-brother, Raymond Murdock.

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