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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.
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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
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- Oprah Winfrey, Ellen Barkin, Tina Majorino
Julia Stiles. Phoebe Jackson. John Savage. Billy Jackson. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. Advertise With Us. A black woman (Oprah Winfrey) helps a white girl (Tina Majorino) cope with her father's...
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- Lloyd Kramer
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- Oprah Winfrey
Nov 2, 1997 · 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. Lloyd Kramer. Director, Screenplay. Connie May Fowler. Novel, Writer. Reviews 0. 0. 1.
Television movie based on Connie May Fowler's book of the same name. 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...
- Lloyd Kramer
- Oprah Winfrey
Plot. Before Women Had Wings. Summaries. A black woman helps a white girl cope with her father's suicide and escape her alcoholic mother's abuse. Alcoholic Billy reflects on his country-music career that never happened and beats his wife Glory Marie, also a drunk.
Synopsis. A black woman helps a white girl cope with her father’s suicide and escape her alcoholic mother’s abuse.
