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Released
1980 · FILM

White Mama

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

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Runtime
105 min
DramaTV Movie

Synopsis

An elderly white woman, living in poverty within a tenement in a predominantly Black neighborhood, forms a friendship with a local boy. The two develop a mutually beneficial relationship, in which he offers her companionship and protection, while she provides him with the maternal care he has lacked.

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Principal cast & crew: 18

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This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Jerry DronskyShot by William K JurgensenScored by Peter Matz

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