
93 minutes
1/24/1996
Jordan Roosevelt, at 65, found herself alone, destitute, and depressed. Up against the wall, she took heart from the suggestion of a friend, a blind woman who was a nurse: enter a foster care program in which one takes care of patients in their own home. The patients she cares for are Alzheimers sufferers, and she shares her home with three other women in advanced stages of the disease, one (Gayle) wheelchair bound. And with these women, Jordan realizes a lifelong dream - to feel the ocean breeze. An accidental find of a coffee can stash of cash, buried by her late husband, makes the trip possible. Based on the true story of Peggy Lee of Camilla, Texas (the Alzheimers, the patients, and the foster care program are actual, the trip to the Galveston beaches is fictional).

Cicely Tyson
as Jordan Roosevelt

Piper Laurie
as Wanda Kirkman

Tess Harper
as Julia Archer

James McDaniel
as Marcus Roosevelt Sr.

Starletta DuPois
as Sally
Salle Ellis
as Gayle

Penny Johnson Jerald
as Laney Roosevelt

Brandon Hammond
as Marcus Roosevelt Jr.

Stephen Root
as Ed Kirkman

Clarence Williams III
as Christopher, the Caretaker

Dennis Letts
as Roland Tate

Patti Yasutake
as Nurse Dickerson

Tony Frank
as Leroy

Dee Hennigan
as Linda Archer
Haskell Craver
as Bubba

Alex Morris
as Teddy Roosevelt