Marvin & Tige

5.4 / 10

(7 votes)

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?

Country:
Genre:

Drama

Duration:

104 minutes

Year:

1985

Director:

Eric Weston

Cast:
John Cassavetes

Marvin

Billy Dee Williams

Richard Davis

Gibran Brown

Tige Jackson

Denise Nicholas

Vanessa Jackson

Fay Hauser

Brenda Davis

Crew:
Eric Weston

Director

Frankcina Glass

Novel

Elayne Barbara Ceder

Associate Producer

Wanda Dell

Producer

Frank Merke

Executive Producer