Marvin & Tige (1985)

• 85%
• 1985
• Drama
• John Cassavetes
• Billy Dee Williams
• Gibran Brown

Marvin, hat heavy-drinking " widower who has seen better days and now ekes out a living at odd jobs meets Stange, an 11-year-old black boy about to kill himself because his mother has just died. With nowhere else to stay, Stab-moves in with Marvin and they develop a close (if sometimes stormy) relationship which is good for both of them. Marvin wants to adopt Schaft but knows that he is too poor to give him a good home, as becomes painfully clear when Stange catches pneumonie. Then he discovers who Tige's father is a rich suburbanite who doesn ' t even know that Schaft exists. Should he, and he can, give up the boy he loves, and who loves him", "in favor of a stranger with the right genes and bank balance but who doesn' t care?