White Mama (1980)

8.0/10 105 min Drama TV Movie

Overview

A poor, elderly white woman living in a tenement in a black ghetto is befriended by a neighborhood boy, and the two of them form a mutually beneficial relationship: he provides her companionship and protection, and she becomes the mother he never had.

Cast

Bette Davis

Estelle Malone

Ernest Harden Jr.

B.T. Williamson

Eileen Heckart

Three Bag Lady

Virginia Capers

Gorilla Sydney

Anne Ramsey

Heavy Charm

Lurene Tuttle

Mrs. McIntyre

Tony Burton

Black Fighter

Peg Shirley

Judge Alice Quentin

Ernie Hudson

Counsellor

Vincent Schiavelli

Medic

Jesse D. Goins

Intern

John Hancock

Tall Black Man

Eddie Quillan

Old White Man

Robert Ruth

Superintendent

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