A black woman helps a white girl cope with her father's suicide and escape her alcoholic mother's abuse.A black woman helps a white girl cope with her father's suicide and escape her alcoholic mother's abuse.A black woman helps a white girl cope with her father's suicide and escape her alcoholic mother's abuse.
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This film was just magical! It was made up of most Tragedies young people go through in the world today. I think the name of the movie is fantastic aswell. Because it fits the end of the story, that you can fly away from your troubles. It definitely one that is worth watching and if you liked this one you should watch where the heart is because its more or less similar. Two young sisters watch their abusive father beat up their mother for the slightest thing. Soon he kills himself and the 3 girls move away. But the mother develops a drinking problem and takes everything out on her two young daughters. One of the young daughters starts visiting a black woman in secret as her mother is set against it. Can Miss Zora help the mother put her life back on track?
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- GoofsWhen Glory Marie strikes Bird with the coffee mug, it leaves a bruise beside her left eye. In a scene a few minutes prior to this, the bruise beside her eye is visible in a brief shot.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 55th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1998)
- SoundtracksRing of Fire
Written by June Carter Cash and Merle Kilgore
Performed by Johnny Cash
Courtesy of Columbia Records
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