Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 130 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
The story
During World War II, the US Army's only all-Black, all-women battalion takes on an impossible mission: sorting through a three-year backlog of 17 million pieces of mail that hadn't been delivered to American soldiers and finish within six months.
- world war ii
- racial segregation
- based on true story
- moral courage
- 1940s
- based on magazine
- newspaper or article
- african american history
- human dignity
- heartfelt
- war drama
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Kerry Washington
Charity Adams
Sam Waterston
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Susan Sarandon
Eleanor Roosevelt
Dean Norris
General Halt
- Oprah Winfrey — Mary McLeod Bethune
- Ebony Obsidian — Lena Derriecott King
- Milauna Jackson — Captain Campbell
- Kylie Jefferson — Bernice Baker
- Shanice Williams — Johnnie Mae (credited as Shanice Shantay)
- Pepi Sonuga — Elaine White
- Sarah Jeffery — Dolores Washington
- Jay Reeves — Private Hugh Bell
- Jeanté Godlock — Vera
- Moriah Brown — Inez
- Baadja-Lyne Odums — Susan
- Directed
- Tyler Perry
- Written
- Tyler Perry
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 711 ratings
- Studio
- Tyler Perry Studios, Mandalay Pictures, Her Excellency Productions, Intuition Productions
If this stayed with you
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