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Rated 4.5/5 Stars • Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member good child abuse, battered woman, movie with Oprah. based before laws and awareness. watched on OWN tv.
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- Lloyd Kramer
- TV-14
- Oprah Winfrey
May 7, 1996 · In stark and honest language, she tells the tragic life of her father, a sweet-talking wanna-be country music star, tracks her older sister's perilous journey into womanhood, and witnesses her mother make a courageous and ultimately devastating decision. Yet most profound is Bird's own story--her struggle to sift through the ashes of her ...
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Gritty detail aside, this lyrical tale of an abused child's survival and empowerment is more fable than yet another story of a dysfunctional family facing down its demons. Set in her native Florida, a place of sandy scrub and rundown motor-courts, Fowler's tale (River of Hidden Dreams, 1994, etc.) offers a child, Avocet Abigail Jackson (Bird for short), as the chronicler of one redneck family ...
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Before Women Had Wings: Directed by Lloyd Kramer. With Oprah Winfrey, Ellen Barkin, Tina Majorino, Julia Stiles. A black woman helps a white girl cope with her father's suicide and escape her alcoholic mother's abuse.
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- Lloyd Kramer
- TV-14
- Oprah Winfrey, Ellen Barkin, Tina Majorino
Network. ABC. Release. November 2, 1997. ( 1997-11-02) Before Women Had Wings is a 1997 American drama television film directed by Lloyd Kramer and written by Connie May Fowler, based on her 1996 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name. It stars Ellen Barkin, Oprah Winfrey, Tina Majorino, Julia Stiles, Burt Young, and John Savage.
- Before Women Had Wings, by Connie May Fowler
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Nov 9, 1997 · First of six telepics produced by Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Films for ABC under the "Oprah Winfrey Presents" banner plays like an "Oprah" theme show that was intercepted by a film crew on the way to ...
Before Women Had Wings. by Connie May Fowler. In a brutal world, imagination was her only hope...and love, her greatest salvation. The premiere Oprah Winfrey Presents movie on ABC Network Television. My name is Avocet Abigail Jackson. But because Mama couldn't find anyone who thought Avocet was a fine name for a child, she called me Bird.
