Sometimes it takes a friend to make the pieces fit
1985 · 1h 44m · ★ 5.1
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?
Jerry Penson
Policeman
Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story
2003·7.3
