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Brüder wider Willen

Originaltitel: A Family Thing
  • 1996
  • PG-13
  • 1 Std. 49 Min.
IMDb-BEWERTUNG
7,1/10
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Brüder wider Willen (1996)
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Earl Pilcher, Jr. betreibt einen Ausrüstungsverleih in Arkansas, lebt mit seiner Frau, seinen Kindern und seinen Eltern und nimmt nur selten seine Gimme-Mütze ab.Earl Pilcher, Jr. betreibt einen Ausrüstungsverleih in Arkansas, lebt mit seiner Frau, seinen Kindern und seinen Eltern und nimmt nur selten seine Gimme-Mütze ab.Earl Pilcher, Jr. betreibt einen Ausrüstungsverleih in Arkansas, lebt mit seiner Frau, seinen Kindern und seinen Eltern und nimmt nur selten seine Gimme-Mütze ab.

  • Regie
    • Richard Pearce
  • Drehbuch
    • Billy Bob Thornton
    • Tom Epperson
  • Hauptbesetzung
    • Robert Duvall
    • James Earl Jones
    • Michael Beach
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    7,1/10
    4630
    IHRE BEWERTUNG
    • Regie
      • Richard Pearce
    • Drehbuch
      • Billy Bob Thornton
      • Tom Epperson
    • Hauptbesetzung
      • Robert Duvall
      • James Earl Jones
      • Michael Beach
    • 34Benutzerrezensionen
    • 22Kritische Rezensionen
    • 71Metascore
  • Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro
    • Auszeichnungen
      • 3 Gewinne & 2 Nominierungen insgesamt

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    Robert Duvall
    Robert Duvall
    • Earl
    James Earl Jones
    James Earl Jones
    • Ray
    Michael Beach
    Michael Beach
    • Virgil
    Irma P. Hall
    Irma P. Hall
    • Aunt T.
    Grace Zabriskie
    Grace Zabriskie
    • Ruby
    Regina Taylor
    Regina Taylor
    • Ann
    Mary Jackson
    Mary Jackson
    • Carrie
    Paula Marshall
    Paula Marshall
    • Karen
    James N. Harrell
    • Earl Sr.
    • (as James Harrell)
    Lauren Leigh Phillips
    • Kindra
    Ashleigh Jordan
    • Danielle
    David Keith
    David Keith
    • Sonny
    Sandra Quarterman
    • Young Aunt T.
    • (as Saundra Quarterman)
    Patrice Pitman Quinn
    • Willa Mae
    Don James
    • Junior Turner
    Jim Sanderson
    • Dr. Parks
    Karla Harscheid
    • Young Carrie Pilcher
    Crystal Laws Green
    • Maotis
    • Regie
      • Richard Pearce
    • Drehbuch
      • Billy Bob Thornton
      • Tom Epperson
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    billybrown41

    What a great movie.

    I saw this movie back when it first came to video. I didn't know anything about it, but I put it in anyway and sat back with an open mind. What followed for the next two hours was a fascinating story of a bigoted, Mississipi tractor salesman who finds out that he is half black. While this might not sound like a big deal, let me explain a bit. I grew up down in the delta, near the location that this movie was filmed. It is a big deal down there. Unfortunately, the majority isn't quite as color-blind as they are in other parts of the united states and bigotry is still a pretty common thing. I'm sad to say that there is still a little bit of a barrier there, and if more people were to see this movie, then I'm sure things would be a little bit different.

    You see, Robert Duvall plays a fellow (not the most open-minded of sorts) named Earl. In the opening, we get to see the events that make up a typical day for Earl (coffee drinking, shooting the breeze, and selling tractors). We also learn that Earl's Mom isn't in the best health as she passes away ten minutes into the film. She also leaves a note behind telling Earl that she isn't his real mother. His real mother was black and Earl is the result of an affair that costs his blood mother her life. Since Earl came out looking white, he was raised up like nothing ever happened.

    I can see it as a shock. One, Earl appears to be in his mid-fifties. (that's quite a big shock to a guy in the prime of his life) two, he discovers that not only is he a b**tard child to a mother he never knew, he also has an older half-brother. After all of this, Earl needs to take a road-trip to get himself together and maybe meet the brother he never knew. What follows next is a journey (both physical and spiritual) that will show ol'Earl a thing or two about life and love.

    Written by Tom Epperson and none other than Ol' Billy Bob Thornton himself, "A Family Thing" is one of the best feel good movies I have ever seen. I highly reccommend it. It's pretty rare that a movie comes along that is good enough to change one's life. This oughta be required viewing for high-school students. What a film. 10/10
    7shiannedog

    You just have to want to be saved.

    You know the Oscar's are warped when movies like this aren't even nominated for an award. This is a really great movie, extremely well acted, perfectly cast, and wonderfully directed. An unusual story that will bring you to tears and reshape your heart. What a blessing to discover and enjoy! Thank you for making it. 7.4/10.
    8Mitch-38

    Family is relative

    This is a movie that reminds one of the saying: "Just when I thought I knew the answers, they changed the questions." A Caucasian man discovers late in life that his mother was actually Black, instead of the White woman who raised him. The history of slavery in the US, and the American version of apartheid in the south that followed the Civil War until the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and given the often "strained" relations that exist today; the subject matter is important and challenging. The result is that "A Family Thing" is a little gem. It speaks of bigotry, fear, the way things were and the way things are. Some White Americans will not be comfortable with this movie. This will be due to the bigoted nature of Mr. Duvall's character, metaphoric of White hatred towards Blacks. Then, his world crumbles when he discovers when all is not what it seems. Kudos to the producers(of whom Mr. Duvall was one) and the cast for a superb lesson in confronting hate, and how one special Aunt can heal wounds generations old.
    8thejoebloggs

    The futility of racism

    A moving portrayal of the problems of racism - from both sides. The central characters a portrayed with incredible depth. Aunt T (Irma P. Hall) sums up the futility of racism - the films central theme - with the line "being blind does not give me the opportunity to judge a person by their color" (paraphrased). That being said, the film gets it's message across without preaching. An excellent film.
    7view_and_review

    Hat's Off

    Any movie about racial matters is bound to be difficult to tackle by anyone with scruples and integrity. For those who can deftly deal with the issue and make a quality movie: my hat's off to them. "A Family Thing" is a quality movie.

    Earl Pilcher, Jr. (Robert Duvall), an old white Arkansan finds out that his real mother was not the old white woman who raised him and who just passed away, but a Black woman his father had an illicit relationship with. This news rocked his genteel Southern world. He grew up a proud white Southern man who referred to Blacks as N-words. Now he has to confront the fact that A.) his father was a philanderer and B.) he was half Black. He now wanted to find his real brother, Ray Murdock (James Earl Jones), thereby fulfilling his adopted mother's wish and satisfying his own curiosity

    It wasn't a felicitous reunion between the two of them. There was some serious bitterness: Earl because he had to face the fact he wasn't white (or at least all white) and Ray because he saw Earl's father as the cause of his mother's death.

    This was a well written and finely acted drama. Billy Bob Thornton's first screenplay, "One False Move," was a good debut. "A Family Thing" is even better.

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      James Earl Jones uses his actual stammer as part of his character.
    • Patzer
      When Earl & Ray are together in Earl's car near the end Ray says that he hasn't been back to Earl's hometown for 60 years which would be the birth year for Earl however in an earlier scene Ray had confessed to having scarred Earl by throwing a rock which had hit him as Earl & his father were exiting a store.
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      Earl Pilcher, Jr.: Being happy ain't nothin' more than havin' something to look forward to.

    • Crazy Credits
      The original script that this movie was based on was titled "Latent Blood" by L Guy Burton. Burton did not get credit for the rewrite after giving the script to his agent at the time, The Berzon Agency of California.
    • Verbindungen
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Diabolique/It's My Party/Flirting with Disaster/Girl 6/Little Indian, Big City (1996)
    • Soundtracks
      Spirit In The Dark
      Written and Performed by Aretha Franklin

      Courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corp.

      By Arrangement with Warner Special Products

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    • Erscheinungsdatum
      • 29. März 1996 (Vereinigte Staaten)
    • Herkunftsland
      • Vereinigte Staaten
    • Offizieller Standort
      • MGM (United States)
    • Sprache
      • Englisch
    • Auch bekannt als
      • Family Thing - Brüder wider Willen
    • Drehorte
      • Covington, Tennessee, USA
    • Produktionsfirmen
      • United Artists
      • Butcher's Run Films
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    • Bruttoertrag in den USA und Kanada
      • 10.125.417 $
    • Eröffnungswochenende in den USA und in Kanada
      • 3.020.662 $
      • 31. März 1996
    • Weltweiter Bruttoertrag
      • 10.125.417 $
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      1 Stunde 49 Minuten
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