Movie

White Mama (1980)

• NR
• March 5, 1980
• 1h 45m

• Drama
• TV Movie

“A proud widow. A frightened homeless kid. Nobody cared about them until they cared enough to fight for each other.”

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.

Director

Jackie Cooper

Writers

Robert C.S. Downs

Starring

Bette Davis, Ernest Harden Jr., Eileen Heckart