Zora Williams
Search results
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.
Recently viewed. 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.
Before Women Had Wings. Page 1 of 7, 7 total items. Page 1 of 2, 4 total items. A black woman (Oprah Winfrey) helps a white girl (Tina Majorino) cope with her father's suicide and escape her ...
- Drama
Grown-up son Hank has moved away, but teenaged Phoebe and sensitive nine-year-old Bird have to live in the bleak alcoholic atmosphere. Problems escalate after a tragic event. The three females move into a trailer where the girls are subjected to a torrent of abuse from their mom. Fortunately, benign Miss Zora appears like a guardian angel to ...
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. Lloyd Kramer. Director, Screenplay.
Brief Synopsis. 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 devast.
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. In the film, set in 1960s Tampa, Florida, a woman whose abusive husband had committed suicide begins violently abusing her two daughters. It is only then that a kindly woman becomes good friends with her youngest ...
