Donna Deitch
Director
Barbara Black
Line Producer
Gloria Naylor
Novel
David Shire
Original Music Composer
Alexander Gruszynski
Director of Photography
Reuben Cannon
Producer
Carole Isenberg
Executive Producer
Patricia K. Meyer
Producer
Oprah Winfrey
Executive Producer
Karen Hall
Teleplay
Oprah Winfrey
Mattie Michael
Mary Alice
Fannie Michael
Olivia Cole
Miss Sophie
Robin Givens
Kiswana / Melanie Browne
Moses Gunn
Ben
Paula Kelly
Theresa
Lonette McKee
Lorraine
Barbara Montgomery
Miss Eva Turner
Phyllis Yvonne Stickney
Cora Lee
Leon
Abshu
Cicely Tyson
Lynn Whitfield
Ciel
Paul Winfield
Sam Michael
William Allen Young
Eugene
Cicely Tyson
Mrs. Browne
Bruce Beatty
Crony
William Frankfather
Judge
Clark Johnson
Butch Fuller
Homeselle Joy
Betina
Eugene Lee
Basil
Bebe Drake
Cleo
Glenn Plummer
C.C. Baker
Roxanne Reese
Alfreda
Douglas Turner Ward
Reverend Woods
Samm-Art Williams
Cecil Garvin
Jonathan 'Fudge' Leonard
Brucie
Maya Leonard
Diedre
Phill Lewis
Bottom
Bee-Be Smith
Hippolyta
Larenz Tate
Sammy
Geoffrey Thorne
Theseus
