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Marvin & Tige (1985)
Directed by Eric Weston
Overview
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?
Rated PG | Length 104 minutes
Actors
John Cassavetes | Billy Dee Williams | Gibran Brown | Denise Nicholas | Fay Hauser | Georgia Allen | Jerry Penson | Charles Darden | May K. Pearce | Lou Walker | Rob Harke | Danny Nelson | Je Nie Fleming | Frank Hart | Tami Dash