Before Women Had Wings

Name: Before Women Had Wings
Director: Lloyd Kramer
Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Released: 1997-11-02
Duration: 96 min
Cast: Ellen Barkin, Tina Majorino, Oprah Winfrey, Julia Stiles, Burt Young

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1997 · 96 min · Drama · TV Movie · TMDB 6.4/10

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.

Directed by Lloyd Kramer

Cast

Ellen Barkin — Glory Marie Jackson
Tina Majorino — Avocet Abigail 'Bird' Jackson
Oprah Winfrey — Zora Williams
Julia Stiles — Phoebe Jackson
Burt Young — Louis Ippolito