Marvin & Tige

Sometimes it takes a friend to make the pieces fit

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
• Runtime
• 104 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Eric Weston

Cast

John Cassavetes Marvin Billy Dee Williams Richard Davis

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Gibran Brown Tige Jackson Denise Nicholas Vanessa Jackson Fay Hauser Brenda Davis

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Georgia Allen Carrie Carter

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Jerry Penson Policeman

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Charles Darden TV Salesman