In a world of abuse and violence, one person gave her hope
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.
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Cast
- Ellen BarkinGlory Marie Jackson
- Tina MajorinoAvocet Abigail 'Bird' Jackson
- Oprah WinfreyZora Williams
- Julia StilesPhoebe Jackson
- Burt YoungLouis Ippolito
- John SavageBilly Jackson
- William Lee ScottHank Jackson
- Louis CrugnaliL.J. Ippolito
- David HartSheriff
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- Lloyd KramerDirector
- Lloyd KramerScreenplay
- Connie May FowlerWriter
- Connie May FowlerNovel
- Ericson CoreDirector of Photography
- Anton SankoOriginal Music Composer
- Stephen SemelEditor
- Oprah WinfreyProducer
- Jay BensonProducer
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