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Marvin & Tige

Sometimes it takes a friend to make the pieces fit

5.1 average rating
★★★★★
5.1
English / 104 MIN. / 1985

The Genres

The Synopsis

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 Tige's father is a rich suburbanite who doesn't 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?

The Cast

John CassavetesBilly Dee WilliamsGibran BrownDenise NicholasFay HauserGeorgia AllenJerry PensonCharles DardenMay K. PearceLou WalkerRob HarkeDanny NelsonJe Nie FlemingFrank HartTami Dash

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