Marvin & Tige
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?
- Genre: Drama
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- Nøgleord: suicide, class, adoption, homelessness, alcoholism, racism
- Cast: John Cassavetes, Billy Dee Williams, Gibran Brown, Denise Nicholas, Fay Hauser, Georgia Allen
