Before Women Had Wings (1997)
With Ellen Barkin, Oprah Winfrey, Tina Majorino, Julia Stiles, John Savage, Burt Young, William Lee Scott, David Hart
Directed by Lloyd Kramer
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. 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 daughter and helps the daughter escape her tortured life.
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