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.

Director: Lloyd Kramer

Cast: Ellen Barkin, Tina Majorino, Oprah Winfrey, Julia Stiles, Burt Young, John Savage, William Lee Scott, Louis Crugnali

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.