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.
Top Billed Cast
Ellen Barkin
Glory Marie Jackson
Tina Majorino
Avocet Abigail 'Bird' Jackson
Oprah Winfrey
Zora Williams
Julia Stiles
Phoebe Jackson
Burt Young
Louis Ippolito
Featured Crew
Lloyd Kramer
Director
Lloyd Kramer
Screenplay
Connie May Fowler
Novel
Jay Benson
Producer
Ericson Core
Director of Photography
Connie May Fowler
Writer
Kenneth Bryant
Art Direction
Stephen Semel
Editor
Oprah Winfrey
Producer
Joe Rainey
Production Design
Anton Sanko
Music
Kate Forte
Executive Producer
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