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.

• Lloyd KramerDirector
• Lloyd KramerScreenplay
• Connie May FowlerWriter
• Anton SankoOriginal Music Composer

• 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