The Women of Brewster Place (1989)

Starring:

• Oprah Winfrey
• Mary Alice
• Olivia Cole
• Robin Givens
• Moses Gunn
• Jackée Harry
• Paula Kelly
• Leon
• Lonette McKee
• Barbara Montgomery
• Phyllis Yvonne Stickney
• Lynn Whitfield
• Paul Winfield
• William Allen Young
• Cicely Tyson

Storyline
The Women Of Brewster Place-Based on the novel by Gloria Naylor, which deals with several strong-willed women who live in a rundown housing project on Brewster Place in an unidentified eastern city; across three decades, they struggle against poverty, bigotry, and weak, troublesome men.