Before Women Had Wings (1997)

6.4/10 • 96 min • Drama TV Movie

Overview

An adaptation of Connie May Fowler's 1996 novel tracing the unlikely friendship between a young white girl, daughter of an alcoholic mother and a no-good father, and a tender-hearted but reclusive black woman in the rural South of the '60s.

Cast

Ellen Barkin

Glory Marie Jackson

Tina Majorino

Avocet Abigail 'Bird' Jackson

Oprah Winfrey

Julia Stiles

Burt Young

John Savage

William Lee Scott

Louis Crugnali

David Hart

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