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.
Ellen Barkin , Tina Majorino , Oprah Winfrey , Julia Stiles , Burt Young , John Savage , William Lee Scott , Louis Crugnali , David Hart
Harpo Films
