White Mama

Name: White Mama
Director: Jackie Cooper
Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Released: 1980-03-05
Duration: 105 min
Cast: Bette Davis, Ernest Harden Jr., Eileen Heckart, Virginia Capers, Anne Ramsey

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1980 · 105 min · NR · Drama · TV Movie · TMDB 8.0/10

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.

Directed by Jackie Cooper

Cast

Bette Davis — Estelle Malone
Ernest Harden Jr. — B.T. Williamson
Eileen Heckart — Three Bag Lady
Virginia Capers — Gorilla Sydney
Anne Ramsey — Heavy Charm