Before Women Had Wings

1h 36m
DramaTV Movie
6

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
Zora Williams
Julia Stiles
Phoebe Jackson
Burt Young
Louis Ippolito
John Savage
Billy Jackson
William Lee Scott
Hank Jackson
Louis Crugnali
L.J. Ippolito
David Hart
Sheriff

Crew

Lloyd Kramer
Director, Screenplay
Connie May Fowler
Writer, Novel
Stephen Semel
Editor
Ericson Core
Director of Photography
Kate Forte
Executive Producer
Jay Benson
Producer
Oprah Winfrey
Producer
Joe Rainey
Production Design
Catherine Adair
Costume Design
Anton Sanko
Original Music Composer
Kurt Meisenbach
Set Decoration
Nancy Thurston
Stunts
Kurtis Epper
Stunts
Kenneth Bryant
Art Direction

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