
Before Women Had Wings
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.
Top Cast


Ellen Barkin
Ellen Barkin
Glory Marie Jackson
Ellen Barkin
Glory Marie Jackson


Tina Majorino
Tina Majorino
Avocet Abigail 'Bird' Jackson
Tina Majorino
Avocet Abigail 'Bird' Jackson


Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey
Zora Williams
Oprah Winfrey
Zora Williams


Julia Stiles
Julia Stiles
Phoebe Jackson
Julia Stiles
Phoebe Jackson


Burt Young
Burt Young
Louis Ippolito
Burt Young
Louis Ippolito


John Savage
John Savage
Billy Jackson
John Savage
Billy Jackson


William Lee Scott
William Lee Scott
Hank Jackson
William Lee Scott
Hank Jackson


Louis Crugnali
Louis Crugnali
L.J. Ippolito
Louis Crugnali
L.J. Ippolito


David Hart
David Hart
Sheriff
David Hart
Sheriff
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