Marvin, a heavy-drinking widower meets Tige, an 11-year-old orphan. With nowhere else to go, Tige moves in with Marvin and they develop a close friendship. Marvin wants to adopt Tige but knows that he is too poor to give him a good home. Then he discovers who Tiges father is a rich suburbanite who doesnt even know Tige exists. Should Marvin, and can he, give up the boy he loves, and who loves him, in favor of a stranger with the right genes and bank balance?
1983
HD
104min
PG
English
Eric Weston
John Cassavetes
Denise Nicholas
Jerry Penson
Georgia Allen
Gibran Brown
Fay Hauser
Billy Dee Williams
Charles Darden
May K. Pearce
adoption
racism
alcoholism
suicide
homelessness
class
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