White Mama

Year: 1980

Runtime: 105 mins

Language: English

Director: Jackie Cooper

Drama

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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