Marvin & Tige (1983)
Sometimes it takes a friend to make the pieces fit
104 min
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?
- Release date
- March 8, 1985
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- John Cassavetes as Marvin Stewart
- Billy Dee Williams as Richard Davis
- Gibran Brown as Tige Jackson
- Denise Nicholas as Vanessa Jackson
- Fay Hauser as Brenda Davis
- Georgia Allen as Carrie Carter
- Jerry Penson as Policeman
- Charles Darden as TV Salesman
- May K. Pearce as Nurse
- Lou Walker as Cab Driver
Crew
- Eric Weston · Director
- Frankcina Glass · Writer
- Wanda Dell · Writer
- Eric Weston · Writer
- Wanda Dell · Producer
- Patrick Williams · Composer
- Brian West · Cinematographer
- Fabien D. Tordjmann · Editor
- Wanda Dell · Casting director
- Eric Weston · Casting director