Robert Duvall and James Earl Jones eagerly grab their acting chances here as, respectively, a white racist Arkansas store keeper and his long-lost black brother in Chicago - following a Secrets and Lies-style plot device that has redneck Duvall finding late in life that his real mother was black. Despite the artificial-seeming situation, the fighting-talk dialogue between the two stars delivers laughs among the tears and anger, as both actors go magnificently through their paces. Just when you think it can't get any better than this, Irma P Hall almost upstages the two stars as Duvall's long-lost auntie. Theatrical, contrived and old-fashioned, maybe, but splendidly so, and it's good to see Duvall and Jones rewarded with such grandstanding roles, especially since Jones is normally so neglected for star roles.

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