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Blind Minor 
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TITLE |
Family Thing, A (1996) |
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DISABILITY |
Blind
Stuttering |
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NOTES |
Duvall's
character lives in Dixie country and discovers when |
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his mother
dies that his real mother was black. So he goes to |
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Chicago
where he has a brother who is a policeman and |
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black. After
the meeting there isn't really anywhere to go |
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except
Duvall's journey of self-discovery. But this isn't the |
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Duvall we
know and love. He even speaks differently. The |
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whole
premise of the film isn't upheld by either the script or |
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the acting.
It remains comfortable to watch but not |
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interesting.
Irma P. Hall plays his blind aunt with great |
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presence
though her character is typecast as being blind and |
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James Earl
Jones is a stutterer and plays the brother as |
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