Earl Pilcher Jr. runs an equipment rental outfit in Arkansas, lives with his wife and kids and parents, and rarely takes off his gimme cap. His mother dies, leaving a letter explaining he's not her natural son, but the son of a Black woman who died in childbirth; plus, he has a half brother Ray, in Chicago, she wants him to visit. Earl makes the trip, initially receiving a cold welcome from Ray and Ray's son, Virgil. His birth mother's sister, Aunt T., an aged and blind matriarch, takes Earl in tow and insists that the family open up to him.
Robert Duvall
James Earl Jones
Michael Beach
Irma P. Hall
Grace Zabriskie
Regina Taylor
David Keith
Xander Berkeley
Jacqueline Williams
Mary Jackson
Paula Marshall
Phillip Edward Van Lear
Meg Thalken
Richard Lexsee
James N. Harrell
Lauren Leigh Phillips
Ashleigh Jordan
Saundra Quarterman
Rufus Thomas
Reggie Hayes
Patrice Pitman Quinn
Don James
Jim Sanderson
Crystal Laws Green
Nathan Lee Lewis
Katharine Mitchell
Willo Hausman
J. Antonio Moon
Jeri Boyle
Tommy Bush
Wanda Christine
Roy Hytower
John Mikels
Bernard Mixon
Paulette McDaniels
Antoine Roshell
Greg Hollimon
Andrew Love
Tony Brown
Theodis Rodgers
David Spencer
Eddie Bo Smith Jr.