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A 1997 TV film based on a novel by Connie May Fowler, starring Ellen Barkin and Oprah Winfrey. It depicts the story of a woman who abuses her daughters after her husband's suicide and their escape with the help of a kind stranger.
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A 1997 drama starring Oprah Winfrey, Ellen Barkin and Julia Stiles. It tells the story of three sisters who face violence and alcoholism in their family and find a way to escape with the help of a black woman.
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- Lloyd Kramer
- TV-14
- Oprah Winfrey, Ellen Barkin, Tina Majorino
Miss Zora, a kind-hearted black woman with a sad past, offers comfort and a safe haven to Bird Jackson, a sensitive young girl who is coping with the cycle of alcoholism and abuse that began with her father's suicide and its devastating aftermath. Set in the South during the 1960s.
Before Women Had Wings. A black woman (Oprah Winfrey) helps a white girl (Tina Majorino) cope with her father's suicide and escape her alcoholic mother's...
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- Lloyd Kramer
- TV14
- Oprah Winfrey
Find out who starred in and worked behind the scenes of the TV movie based on Connie May Fowler's novel. See the full list of actors, directors, writers, producers, and more on IMDb.
Nov 2, 1997 · 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.
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A TV movie about a black woman who helps two white girls escape their abusive alcoholic mother. The plot involves a tragic event, a country-music career, and a trailer park.
