Marvin & Tige(1985)
movie - first aired/released 1985-03-08 - 104 min - audience 5.1
Drama
Directed by Eric Weston
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?
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Cast
John CassavetesMarvin
Billy Dee WilliamsRichard Davis- Gibran BrownTige Jackson
Denise NicholasVanessa Jackson
Fay HauserBrenda Davis- Georgia AllenCarrie Carter
- Jerry PensonPoliceman
- Charles DardenTV Salesman
- May K. PearceNurse
Lou WalkerCab Driver- Rob HarkeDriver
Danny NelsonBartender- Je Nie FlemingSylvia Davis
- Frank HartDr. Ross
- Tami DashShirley Carter
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