An adaptation of Connie May Fowler's 1996 novel tracing the unlikely friendship between a young white girl, daughter of an alcoholic mother and a no-good father, and a tender-hearted but reclusive black woman in the rural South of the '60s.
| Directing | Lloyd Kramer | Director |
| Writing | Lloyd Kramer | Screenplay |
| Writing | Connie May Fowler | Writer |
| Writing | Connie May Fowler | Novel |
| Production | Jay Benson | Producer |
| Production | Kate Forte | Executive Producer |
| Production | Oprah Winfrey | Producer |
| Sound | Anton Sanko | Music |
| Camera | Ericson Core | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Stephen Semel | Editor |
| Art | Joe Rainey | Production Design |
| Art | Kenneth Bryant | Art Direction |
| Art | Kurt Meisenbach | Set Decoration |
| Costume & Make-Up | Catherine Adair | Costume Design |
| Crew | Nancy Thurston | Stunts |
| Crew | Kurtis Epper | Stunts |