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White Mama (1980) Plot Summary Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1980 · 105 mins · English
- Directed by
- Jackie Cooper
- Starring
- Bette Davis, Eileen Heckart, Ernie Hudson, Lurene Tuttle, Eddie Quillan, John Hancock
A proud widow and a frightened homeless boy form a bond when the boy befriends the elderly white woman living in a tenement in a black ghetto. Their relationship becomes mutually supportive: he offers her companionship and protection, while she becomes the mother he never had, and together they learn to fight for each other.
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