Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years Movie Review 1999

Based on the book and the Broadway play that looks at life through the aging eyes of the black Delany sisters: 103-year-old Sadie (Carroll) and 101-year-old Bessie (Dee). They share their experiences with New York Times reporter Amy Hill Hearth (Madigan), who has come to interview them in 1991. Their father was born a slave but all 12 of the Delany children graduated from college, with Bessie becoming a teacher and Sadie a dentist in Harlem. (The real Bessie died in 1995 and Sadie in 1999.)

Distribution

Sony Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Plz., 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232, Phone: (310)244-7306, Fax: (310)280-2485, URL: http://www.spe.sony.com, Remarks: Formerly Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment

Available on VHS
Running time 90 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Brothers & Sisters, African America, Interviews, This Is Your Life, Adapted from a Play

Screenplay

Emily Mann

Cast

Diahann Carroll, Ruby Dee, Mykelti Williamson, Lonette McKee, Lisa Amindell Anderson, Audra McDonald, Richard Roundtree, Della Reese

Cinematography

Frank Byers

Director

Lynne Littman