Marvin & Tige (1983)
6/10
Well Meaning, Well Acted, Occasionally Strident In Its Good Intentions
24 January 2020
Eleven-year-old Gibran Brown's single mother dies, and he heads onto the streets. He's thinking about killing himself with a razor when depressed widower John Cassavetes sits down and talks to him. Eventually he takes him home and tries to take care of him.

It's well intentioned and beautifully performed, although I found its feel-good attitude occasionally a bit saccharine. It was filmed in Atlanta, although there isn't that much that couldn't have been set in any major city.

With Billy Dee Williams and Denise Nicholas.
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