Before Women Had Wings

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

Tina Majorino

Oprah Winfrey

Julia Stiles

Burt Young

John Savage