White Mama (1980)

8.0/10 • 105 min • Drama TV Movie

Overview

A poor, elderly white woman living in a tenement in a black ghetto is befriended by a neighborhood boy, and the two of them form a mutually beneficial relationship: he provides her companionship and protection, and she becomes the mother he never had.

Cast

Bette Davis

Ernest Harden Jr.

B.T. Williamson

Eileen Heckart

Virginia Capers

Anne Ramsey

Lurene Tuttle

Tony Burton

Peg Shirley

Judge Alice Quentin

Ernie Hudson

Vincent Schiavelli

Jesse D. Goins

John Hancock

Eddie Quillan

Old White Man

Robert Ruth

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