
Movie
Marvin & Tige
Sometimes it takes a friend to make the pieces fit
19851h 44m5.1out of 109 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?
Directed by Eric Weston
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John Cassavetes
Marvin

Billy Dee Williams
Richard Davis
Gibran Brown
Tige Jackson

Denise Nicholas
Vanessa Jackson

Fay Hauser
Brenda Davis
Georgia Allen
Carrie Carter
Jerry Penson
Policeman
Charles Darden
TV Salesman
May K. Pearce
Nurse

Lou Walker
Cab Driver
Rob Harke
Driver

Danny Nelson
Bartender
Je Nie Fleming
Sylvia Davis
Frank Hart
Dr. Ross
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